Piranhas In The Amazon Quotes

#1. Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Vivek Wadhwa

#2. This night felt like a last hurrah, like we could blaze our brightest, at the apex of our insane adolescence. This was our Mardi Gras before the dark days of Lent.

Heather Demetrios

#3. It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.

Mark Warkentin

#4. I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.

Steve Erickson

#5. She kept forcing herself to remember the entire conversation, playing it back and playing it back, all the way through, forcing a finger down her memory's throat.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. I pride myself in being physically the best that I can be, whether its cardio, strength or quickness.

Justin Cole

#7. I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.

Vin Scully

#8. But how describe the world seen without a self?

Virginia Woolf

#9. (Colds and flus aren't spread by drinking from a sick person's glass. They're spread by touching it. One person's finger leaves virus particles on the glass; the next person's picks them up and transfers them to the respiratory tract via an eye-rub or nose-pick.)

Anonymous

#10. Do not be a one in a million person, be a once in a lifetime individual.

Jeffrey Fry

#11. I had to wait for someone special. Someone who would make my heart feel as if it's been trampled by elephants, thrown into the amazon, and eaten by piranhas.

Lisa Kleypas

#12. Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.

Hippocrates

#13. It's the rule of the two F's: I've got to be a fan and I've got to be a friend. We only work with people we have a cool personal relationship with.

David Macklovitch

#14. I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.

Don Rickles

#15. No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

Eddie Vedder

#16. I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.

Rod Stewart