Renewals Festival Quotes

#1. Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge.

Mitch Albom

#2. I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Maria Mitchell

#3. How many pessimists does it take to change a lightbulb? Never mind. Nobody would get the joke anyway.

Garrison Keillor

#4. Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else.

Tim Ryan

#6. Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

Dianne Reeves

#7. Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be
calling pubs poos?"
"Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. A dollar is not worth as much as you think it is. Your honesty is worth much more.

T. Boone Pickens

#9. Man cannot choose his duties.

George Eliot