Naiad's Quotes

#1. But I was the daughter of a Naiad. Behave like water, I told myself. Don't try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them.

Margaret Atwood

#2. Breaking down does not have to mean reaching a catastrophe.

Valerie Mason-John

#3. There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

Stephen King

#5. I haven't yet written a book in a far-future utopia, where all bad things are eliminated, but it would be fun to do that one day and introduce some subversion.

Peter F. Hamilton

#6. It will be important to restore those provisions, those disclose provisions, those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.

Ted Gup

#7. Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

#8. On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.

Irving Berlin

#10. And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face ...

Walter Scott

#11. Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

Scott Cook

#12. In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

Walter Scott

#13. I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.

Edna Ferber

#14. One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Dan Ariely

#15. Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.

Manoj Bhargava

#16. Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.

Clare B. Dunkle

#17. I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#18. We are now paying the cost of people who move jobs overseas as taxpayers, and people are appalled when they hear that.

Debbie Stabenow