Hamricks Quotes

#1. His eyelids fluttered. (Only eyelids do that. And butterflies.)

Rainbow Rowell

#2. Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.

John F. Kennedy

#3. I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.

Elton John

#4. Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Claudia Black

#5. We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Charlotte Bunch

#6. I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!

Nana Awere Damoah

#7. I felt like I needed to crawl under my blankets.
And I did for about an hour. My self-pity always had a time limit because I usually got annoyed with myself.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Brian Tracy

#9. Photography was not invented to serve a clearly understood function. There was in fact widespread uncertainty, even among its inventors, as to what it might be good for.

John Szarkowski

#10. There's definitely a role for online booksellers, but they can't host events, bring people together, and form a personal relationship in the way a bricks-and-mortar store and its staff can.

Graeme Simsion

#11. Personal power is something that is not visible. We can see its effects, but we cannot see power itself. In the same way, we see the effects of wind, but we cannot actually see the wind.

Frederick Lenz

#12. But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?"
"Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

Haruki Murakami

#13. We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe.

David Fincher