Top 14 January 17 Quotes
#1. Usually, when the distractions of daily life deplete our energy, the first thing we eliminate is the thing we eliminate is the thing we need the most: quiet, reflective time. Time to dream, time to contemplate what's working and what's not, so that we can make changes for the better. (January 17)
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#2. Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.
[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]
John Green
#3. On the morning of January 17, 1966, a real-life dirty bomb crisis occurred over Palomares, Spain. A Strategic Air Command bomber flying with four armed hydrogen Bombs - with yields between 70 kilotons and 1.45 megatons - collided midair with a refueling tanker over the Spanish countryside.
Annie Jacobsen
#4. Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side.
Dave Eggers
#5. Do you want to come inside for a drink?" she softly offered.
"No. No. No, no, no, no. No."
Gwen stared at him. "One 'no' would have been clear."
"Those 'no's' weren't for you. They were for me. I was simply saying them out loud.
Shelly Laurenston
#7. Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
Peter R. Grant
#8. I became a door-to-door IBM salesman in 1963, a job I had for six years. But most everyone thought it was a bad idea. Door-to-door salesmen were lower than used-car salesmen or attorneys.
James W. Murphy
#9. My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I'm subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup.
Steve Capus
#10. Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
Sarah Ockler
#11. We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.
Gwen Ifill
#12. You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
Todd Haynes
#13. If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.
Steve Dildarian
