Firmwide Meeting Quotes

#1. I think it's nice if someone respects whatever their endeavor is, whether it's dance or art or stand-up comedy, to not assume that they're gonna be an overnight sensation, that it's this great craft that takes a lot of hard work to get good at.

Adrian Tomine

#2. Em: I'm falling apart. That's what I'm trying to tell you
Bridge: You're not falling apart. You're scared.
Em: Isn't that the same thing?
Bridge: No

Rebecca Stead

#3. We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.

Arto Lindsay

#4. Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Claude Bernard

#5. I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

Maeve Binchy

#6. I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

Peter Steele

#7. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

#8. My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Romesh Gunesekera

#9. We do not hunt them because we want to save humanity. We hunt them because we like killing them. More than a calling, this is everything to us, our only true reason for living. The hollow place in our hearts are filled with each of their deaths.
We will never stop.

Menton3

#10. When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Nelson Mandela

#11. What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

John C. Calhoun

#12. Contrary to what they tell you ... You are not a limited material being.

Amit Goswami

#13. The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

David Harvey

#14. Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

Ralph Waldo Emerson