Markesha Haggerty Quotes

#1. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road.

Josh McDermitt

#2. The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.

Phil Jackson

#3. People gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They want to know they matter.

Neil Gaiman

#4. We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#5. Not that I'm not keen to talk to him. I am
in the fantasy version of tonight, anyway, in which I actually manage to string words into sentences, and not just random magnetic-poetry sentences, but sentences that don't lead to the logical conclusion that I have brain damage.

Laini Taylor

#6. Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

Rob Bell

#7. the world is the cradle and your trap.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. Unlike magnets, opposites do not necessarily attract; sometimes they merely bash one another to death.

Brian Haig

#9. When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

Peter Coyote

#10. If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

Marv Levy

#11. I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. A mind with absolutely no insight into itself, a mind filled with purpose and delusion.

Louise Penny

#13. We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver

#14. Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Jacqueline Novogratz