Makras Quotes

#1. I hate the way people use PowerPoints instead of thinking

Steve Jobs

#2. I often joke that I've just become a professional schmoozer. Like, nobody cares how well I can rock climb anymore. It just has to do with how well I can schmooze.

Alex Honnold

#3. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

David Foster Wallace

#5. I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.

Alan Keyes

#6. Mind is everything. There's nothing that it's not.

Byron Katie

#7. The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can't help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.

Helen DeWitt

#8. He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

Mary Lou Williams

#9. Love is light, warmth and comfort. Understanding is just light.

June Goodfield

#10. Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

Indira Gandhi

#11. I'm stone, nothing touches me-nothing.

Amy A. Bartol

#12. Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.

Catherynne M Valente

#13. In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Vincent Van Gogh

#14. I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Tom Watson

#15. What kind of moron wants to be a gladiator?

Kate Quinn