Sampedro Torres Quotes

#1. You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Kris Kristofferson

#2. While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Jessica Valenti

#3. I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.

Owen Feltham

#4. People would continue to adopt a particular conception of the divine because it worked for them, not because it was scientifically or philosophically sound.

Karen Armstrong

#5. How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

Khalil Gibran

#6. There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Coco Chanel

#7. After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Alan G. Robinson

#8. When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#9. The sailors in the Construction Battalions had been nicknamed Seabees, based on the initials of the unit.

Alex Malcolm

#10. Oh Christ, I left my world to watch a kid put shoes on a fucked-up weasel. Shoot me Roland, before I breed.

Stephen King

#11. The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

LeRoy Neiman

#12. Visionary minds are in demand to bear us into the dawn of the deep digital era.

Pearl Zhu

#13. If the poems
please you more than my lips,
I will never give you another kiss.

Juan Ramon Jimenez