Laybourne Quotes

#1. Sometimes, when you'd least expect it, the grief would chop your legs out from under you.

Emmy Laybourne

#2. If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.

Geraldine Laybourne

#3. Oil companies earned a permanent enemy in me when they messed with the electric car the first time around, and I think they continue to do a disservice in making it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than they really are in terms of total cost.

Chris Paine

#4. Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.

Nolan Bushnell

#5. We know enough at this moment to say that the God of Abraham is not only unworthy of the immensity of creation; he is unworthy even of man.

Sam Harris

#6. And then I saw Niko. He had sunk down to his knees and had his face in his hands.
I went over to him.
"You did it," I said. "You saved us."
"Yeah," he moaned, "but I lost her.

Emmy Laybourne

#7. We were a good team. I was glad we had decided to work on being friends. She was holding up her end of the bargain and I was trying my best not to worship her.

Emmy Laybourne

#8. Business today is about making decisions amid ambiguity.

Geraldine Laybourne

#9. America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#10. I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

Geraldine Laybourne

#11. Every dog on the face of the earth wants me dead.

Bill Bryson

#12. I guess I could go and get a bunch of knives from the Kitchen aisles and throw them at the intruders. So lame. I wanted to wring my own neck for being so lame.

Emmy Laybourne

#13. Honey, I don't understand that story. What does it mean?"
"It means stick with the dog you know, Auntie Jean", Max told her. "Stick with the dog you know.

Emmy Laybourne

#14. Real power is creating stuff.

Geraldine Laybourne

#15. Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

Eric Hoffer

#16. Women are underserved and underestimated as consumers.

Geraldine Laybourne

#17. I like a kid who holds nothing back.

Emmy Laybourne

#18. All right," Jake said, clapping his hands. "Which one of you little punks is gonna teach me how to play Chutes and Ladders?

Emmy Laybourne

#19. use questions to raise questions,

Os Guinness

#20. If people could see the inside of my brain, I would be in prison.

Camille Paglia

#21. I tell you, just when you think you know someone, she shows up looking pretty and carrying a guitar.

Emmy Laybourne

#22. Who cares about 17-21 year olds? Jack Myers does, and you should, too, if you want a front row seat on where the future of business and civilization is going.

Geraldine Laybourne

#23. Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.

Christian Metz

#24. Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Milton Avery

#25. I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

Felice Picano

#26. I came from here, you came from there.
And now we're both sitting at the same table.

Amin Maalouf