Lisenby Retirement Quotes

#1. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.

Cameron West

#2. If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

Ellen DeGeneres

#3. We don't do that in New York," rasped Odette. She cleared her throat.
"No?" Pinky smiled and put his hand on her thigh.
"No, it's, um, the cash machines. You just ... you wait at them. Forever. Your whole life you're just always" - her hand sliced the air - "there.

Lorrie Moore

#4. It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone.

Shai Tubali

#5. A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden of the story is to the author's psyche.

John Hersey

#6. I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.

Azealia Banks

#7. Every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

Rebecca West

#8. I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests.

Voltaire

#9. Fighting, to me, seems barbaric. I don't really like it. I enjoy out-thinking another man and out-maneuvering him, but I still don't like to fight.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#10. I am haunted by human

Markus Zusak

#11. Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Robert Browning

#12. As artists, it's really important to take time to see what

Zoe Lister-Jones

#13. Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Ursula K. Le Guin