Pomona Sprout Quotes

#1. Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

#2. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure for conformity, a time in which the child could develop and pursue his or her own interests no matter how unusual or bizarre.

Carl Sagan

#4. He was more than just my dominant. Luca was my teacher, friend, and inevitably.. the Master of my heart.

Michelle Hughes

#5. The phrase "low and slow" was coined to describe the relatively low temperatures used for smoking and the lengthy amount of time it takes to infuse and cook the food.

Ted Reader

#6. People who feel themselves inferior have a pathological desire to disprove their own perceptions.

Tom Clancy

#7. A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only you can save yourself.

Anthony Anaxagorou

#8. My son is racing his first 24-hour this year with Porsche.

Bobby Rahal

#9. Hodgkin's is serious and I don't want to be dismissive about it, but there are people who have gone through much worse and lost their lives to cancer.

Delta Goodrem

#10. We are very fortunate to have Matt Carter join the Apollo board. Matt brings deep management, operations, marketing and international business expertise to the company, along with a track record of growing and strengthening well-known consumer brands.

Peter Sperling