Grandcestor's Quotes

#1. I was seducing shepherdesses when you weren't a twinkle in your great-grandcestor's eyes. I think I know what I'm doing.

Jim Butcher

#2. The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

David Ogilvy

#4. I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

Vincent Tan

#5. Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression ... Compression is for kids!!!!

Bruce Swedien

#6. Most economists would concede that, in theory, government has the tools to smooth the business cycle. The problem is that fiscal policy is not made in theory; it's made in Congress.

Charles Wheelan

#7. Fame and success are very different things.

Enya

#8. The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. we can certainly understand and identify with one. And the more vivid that one, the better.

Amy Cuddy

#10. No wonder so many adults long to return to university, to all those deadlines
ahhh, that structure! Scaffolding to which we may cling! Even if it is arbitrary, without it, we're lost, wholly incapable of separating the Romantic from the Victorian in our sad, bewildering lives ...

Marisha Pessl

#11. If you have paparazzi, you know you've gotten somewhere.

Vanessa Hudgens

#12. What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look.

Orson Scott Card

#13. There can be no stronger proof of the impoverishment of our contemporary culture than the popular - though profoundly mistaken - definition of myth as falsehood.

Rollo May

#14. He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

Elizabeth Kostova

#15. There is no life that does not contribute to history.

Dorothy West

#16. We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence.

Cornel West