Herblock Prize Quotes

#1. It was a nice face, a face you get to like. Pretty, but not so pretty that you would have to wear brass knuckles every time you took it out.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Francis Bacon

#3. You may have had someone ask you, "What can I do for you?" Instead of postponing the offer by responding with "I'll let you know," seize the opportunity with a specific response. What's even better is when your answer benefits the both of you.

Lisa A. Mininni

#4. But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

John T. Flynn

#5. Atticus:"Damn it, Jim, I'm a Druid not a Physicist!

Kevin Hearne

#6. There is no formula that I'm aware of for being a successful or fulfilled woman today.

Hillary Clinton

#7. I have strong feelings about cookbooks because I am a lover of them and student of them and devourer of them and collect them. I find them to be a great source of inspiration. When I was a cook and not making much money, I always used to spend most of what I had on cookbooks.

Wylie Dufresne

#8. One thing that affects the event is where I'm at physically.

Jai Uttal

#9. Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Jason Reitman

#10. I am wonderful creation of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.

Richard Drew

#12. For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that' - Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Inc.

Richard Branson

#13. Thanks for the advice, she said, and for some crazy reason she reached over and took another bite of the cookie. Then another. It didn't taste any better, but it didn't stop her. She wanted to like it. She also wanted to know what love tasted like.

C.C. Hunter

#14. He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience.

Karen Kingsbury