Grandma Babysitting Quotes

#1. If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

Zach Johnson

#2. Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

Andrea Cremer

#3. I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

Heath Ledger

#4. My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to tell us about growing up near the Irrawaddy river and how one brother was eaten by a crocodile.

Jamie Cullum

#5. Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?

Thomas Watson

#6. I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Jerry Harrison

#7. Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Eric Brown

#8. The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

Edward Gibbon

#9. Elle: "You really think there's no forgiveness in what happened?"
Nico: "Forgiveness from who, Elle?

Vi Keeland

#10. I was just born to swing, that's all.

Lil Hardin Armstrong

#11. I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

Walter Schloss

#12. It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

Vartan Gregorian

#13. If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know.
If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.

R.D. Laing

#14. Paradoxically, in the long run, bonds are at least as risky as stocks. This is because stock returns are "mean reverting." That is, a series of bad years is likely to be followed by a series of good ones, repairing some of the damage.

William J. Bernstein

#15. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith