Smalley Institute Quotes

#1. People usually escape from their troubles into the future; they draw an imaginary line across the path of time, a line beyond which their current troubles cease to exist.

Milan Kundera

#2. Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too early to tell how our returns are going to look - though all signs are promising - but social good is what we're really after.

Jeffrey Skoll

#3. You can begin as if nothing had ever gone wrong. White as snow.

C.S. Lewis

#4. I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Caitlin Thomas

#5. Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Thomas Keller

#6. Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life ... you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

Neil Gaiman