Phonundrum Quotes

#1. The momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a cell phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers or not: conphonesion, phonundrum, ringchronicity, ringxiety, fauxcellarm, pandephonium.

Steven Pinker

#2. If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?

Ellen Goodman

#3. These moments of immersion, of engagement, of clear focus - moments that can last for hours, occasionally days - are some of the best times of our lives.

Eric Greitens

#4. Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert H. Schuller

#5. Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all.

Hiromu Arakawa

#6. When you meet me here again, you will have come to stay. But not now. You must go back to your own world for a while.

C.S. Lewis

#7. To be Americanized was to be disobedient to your elders, to dress less conservatively, and to spend more time with your friends than your family. Cursing, drinking, and dating were simply unfathomable.

Nabeel Qureshi

#8. There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.

Vincent De Paul

#9. In creativity, brightest minds have no place You have to think from the heart

Raghu Rai

#10. Execution is everything. Even if you start a business with the wrong idea or too many competitors, you can out-execute all the better ideas in the right market.

Robert Jordan

#11. Trade agreements are a net benefit for the world, and a net benefit for our foreign policy, and in the long run, given the dislocations, are a net benefit for us, too.

David Brooks