Recoated Quotes

#1. Papa would say a word and the girl would have to spell it aloud and then paint it on the wall, as long as she got it right. After a month, the wall was recoated. A fresh cement page.

Markus Zusak

#2. What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

Alexander Suvorov

#3. I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Billy Crystal

#4. I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

Mitchell Baker

#5. I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.

Mike Krzyzewski

#6. Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

Evelyn Waugh

#7. We must assist the British in the war as if there were no White Paper and we must resist the White Paper as if there were no war.

David Ben-Gurion

#8. Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

Helen Fisher

#9. We ought to compliment and not to compete with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

C.S. Lewis

#11. It was as though all the passengers on the Titanic were roped together, and the fattest guy had just fallen overboard.

Mitch Feierstein

#12. Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

Rachel Cusk

#13. Words are not simply an expression of the self; they help to create the self. In struggling to say what we are, we become what we say.

Thomas S. Kane

#14. The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we're holding on to that which we're climbing, or we're letting God hold onto us.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. Sunlight streamed in a steady flow, casting flecks of gold onto the floor, bathing my skin. I inhaled deeply. Already, the air inside my bedroom had been perfumed with nature. A breeze whispered softly and breathed carefully onto my skin.

Erica Sehyun Song

#16. Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.

Ridley Scott