Flatbed Trailer Quotes

#1. To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.

Douglas Preston

#2. Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Robin Hobb

#3. So your question, are we happy here? I say how can we be happy when we are mere wanderers without a home?

Helon Habila

#4. So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet.

Diane Wakoski

#5. As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.

Charles Schwab

#6. We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

Michael Lewis

#7. They can also be as manipulative as a James Taylor song. Sure, they're calming and bring you to a good place-but at their core, the whole goal of the damn thing is to undo you.

Brad Meltzer

#8. I feel everything," Calliope tells me as I rest in her metallic arms one night, suspended above an easy sea. "I feel not only the sails, but the hull. Not only the ship, but the sea. Not only the sea, but the sky. And not only the sky, but the stars. I feel everything.

Neal Shusterman

#9. The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#10. Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.

Jeff Weiner

#11. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.

Wayne W. Dyer

#12. As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.

Elizabeth Lowell

#13. Celebrate what God has given others. Leverage what God has given you.

Andy Stanley

#14. I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to do quite a few war movies too so I've taken little things off each film.

Jeremy Irvine

#15. Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

Bruce Feiler

#16. Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

Neal Shusterman