Karmanos Quotes

#1. If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?

Plato

#2. The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

Etty Hillesum

#3. If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

Barack Obama

#4. Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.

Rob Pike

#5. The hostess extended her swanlike neck and opened her mouth to the fullest. "Aaaahhhaaaahhhhheeeeaaaahhhh!"
Somewhere in the depths of the pine forest an identical sound reverberated.
"An echo!" exclaimed Frannie.
"No," smiled Helena. "Sybil Manigault. She's into nature.

Armistead Maupin

#6. Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.

William Landay

#7. The best part of my life is having my kids.

William Perry

#8. Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Maeve Binchy

#9. My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV.

Wentworth Miller

#10. On his refusal to deal with Keith Primeau: We refuse to pay a prima donna, a petulant, pouting player who had 30 goals last year the same money as Toronto is paying Mats Sundin or Pittsburgh is paying Jaromir Jagr.

Peter Karmanos Jr.

#11. As a builder, you don't get many stats or achievements, but you get a lot of rewards seeing those players succeed.

Peter Karmanos Jr.