Severson Sheldon Quotes

#1. In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.

Jane Leavy

#2. I don't think anyone now really understands the planetisation of mankind, really understands the new world order emerging through all this period of strain and pain and contradiction, so more than ever, we need to have an internal sense of navigation.

William Irwin Thompson

#3. Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.

Eduard Hanslick

#4. We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Eddie Obeng

#5. Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.

Anand Gopal

#6. I've finally gotten to a point in my life where I'm not afraid to speak. Where my shadow no longer haunts me. And I don't want to lose that freedom
not again. I can't go backward. I'd rather be shot dead screaming for justice than die alone in a prison of my own making.

Tahereh Mafi

#7. Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. A new man is like a new toy. Fresh and interesting. Almost intriguing. It's like when you get a new car. Everything is different. The smell, the sound of the horn and seats, and it even ride good for a while. That's what a man is like to me.

Jeanette Michelle

#9. The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

W. Edwards Deming

#10. It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Roger Ebert