Parini Copper Quotes

#1. Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

James Russell Lowell

#2. You're not really grown until you've lost your heroes.

Daniel H. Wilson

#3. I'd have felt better with Morgen to talk to, to help, but all I had was memory and a soulsong to help me with our ancient cousins from across the stars, cousins so willful they could not see. Cousins even more willful than the ancient heroes my mother had bequeathed to me.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#4. the edge. Great. Now his firm rear end

Anne Carrole

#5. So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Dustin Hoffman

#6. God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

Brennan Manning

#7. It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

Frederick Herzberg

#8. Speaking in front of a large crowd is not pleasant. Once it gets rolling, it's okay. But beforehand, it's murder.

David Lynch

#9. Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

#10. Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.

Sara Teasdale