Plotnick Diamond Quotes

#1. I think reading a translation is an act of faith.

Donna Leon

#2. You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

F. Sionil Jose

#4. Listen to this," said Maddie. "Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cerise Hood. Cedar Wood. Cedar, you and Cerise have to be friends or your names will get mad and just march right off you!

Shannon Hale

#5. You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

Frederick Lenz

#6. The world is too much with us.

William Wordsworth

#7. Whatever you love is beautiful; love comes first, beauty follows. The greater your capacity for love, the more beauty you find in the world.

Jane Smiley

#8. That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

Paul Allen

#9. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.

Leila Janah

#10. A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great.

Penelope Douglas

#11. Everything which bars freedom and fullness of communication sets up barriers that divide human beings into sets and cliques, into antagonistic sects and factions, and thereby undermines the democratic way of life.

John Dewey

#12. One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.

Adam Mansbach