Manfredini Libertyville Quotes

#1. Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

Michael Graves

#2. He isn't mine to miss,' I say a minute later, after I control the quiver I know would have crept into my voice if I'd responded right away.
'No one belongs to anyone, Clem. Especially not when you're sixteen years old.

Melissa C. Walker

#3. And then she would put her hand over the bird's face like she was hiding it from seeing something, and then she would grab and twist. Break the neck. Slice the head off on the stump.

Jesmyn Ward

#4. I've been able to get an excitement back in the water.

Michael Phelps

#5. I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught ...

Thomas Aquinas

#6. Being in the pulpit, was like being in the theatre; I was behind the scenes and knew how the illusion worked.

James A. Baldwin

#7. I see too many men delay their exits with a sickly, slow reluctance to leave the stage. It's bad theater as well as bad living.

John Steinbeck

#8. I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

Jack W. Szostak

#9. We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Joni Mitchell

#10. A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

Aaron Levie

#11. When you control their water, you control the people.

Nabil N. Jamal

#12. White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

Steve Erickson