Marketable Skills Quotes

#1. If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

J. C. Watts

#2. An actor without techies is a naked person standing in the dark trying to emote. A techie without actors is a person with marketable skills.

Mark Leslie

#3. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.

Charles Platt

#4. If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.

Harlan Coben

#5. Despite (or because of) a free public school system, millions of teenagers enter the work force without marketable skills. So why would anyone expect them to be well paid?

Charles Platt

#6. When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

Victor LaValle

#7. And the usual course of affairs is that, as soon as a powerful foreigner enters a country, all the subject states are drawn to him, moved by the hatred that they feel against the ruling power.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#8. We must look for a long time before we can see.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference.

Kenneth Chenault

#10. If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

Dov Davidoff

#11. It gave me an extraordinary feeling, being on the receiving end of such a stare. It made me feel like I was more important than air to him for a brief, profound moment.

R.K. Lilley

#12. Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

Jack Nicklaus

#13. At a certain point, the soul exits from a cherished photograph, because we have come to the end of our loving projection into that moment.

Marni Jackson

#14. She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

Anne Bishop

#15. Each and every one of us, at the end of the journey of life, will come face to face with either one or the other of two faces ... And one of them, either the merciful face of Christ or the miserable face of Satan, will say, "Mine, mine." May we be Christ's!

Fulton J. Sheen

#16. I hate television. I hate the internet. I hate cell phones. I hate cameras. I hate everything that destroys creativity.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#17. My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

Bun B.

#18. I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

Khloe Kardashian

#19. A priest's life is spent between question and answer
or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#20. My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

Sebastian Junger

#21. Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen.

Alan Kinross

#22. When no one was watching, he allowed himself a moment of self-pity. Maybe this was all he deserved, to be used and discarded like the piece of trash he was. He'd never be loved. He didn't deserve that either.

Barbara Elsborg