Shumlin Vermont Quotes

#1. We're just like the antiques. We grow old and get scarred and beat up along the way, and the only question becomes whether we're going to make it until we realize what we already have is valuable." --Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale

Lynda Rutledge

#2. Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Hill Collins

#3. This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.

Larry Wall

#4. Google says young people don't care about privacy, but when asked if they'd let their parents see their phone bills and other stuff they say no.

Nick Harkaway

#5. Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Nicole Kidman

#6. I asked Go to answer my questions, but the only sound was always the whistling of the wind filling the empty space.

Rudolfo Anaya

#7. Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#8. When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."

Sheila Johnson

#9. Europe's financial system is fragmented, although the gap in funding costs for banks within the euro area is no longer as wide as it was two years ago. But in lending the differences are still very large, and in some countries the credit flow is disrupted.

Mario Draghi

#10. Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#11. those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children,

Plato

#12. It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die.

Mercedes Lackey

#13. There are some viviparous flies, which bring forth 2,000 young. These in a little time would fill the air, and like clouds intercept the rays of the sun, unless they were devoured by birds, spiders, and many other animals.

Carl Linnaeus

#14. You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Peter Shumlin

#15. The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

William McFee