Solute Potential Quotes

#1. If the two women feared that the coming of this date [their retirement] might give some clue to their ages, it was not an occasion for embarrassment because nobody else had been in the least interested, both of them having long ago reached ages beyond any kind of speculation.

Barbara Pym

#2. If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.

Stuart Rose

#3. I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Jami Attenberg

#4. Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#5. Life to you, Riddler, and everlasting glory.

Janet Morris

#6. I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research.

Aminatta Forna

#7. And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

Tavis Smiley

#9. You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

Hermann Broch

#10. I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#11. We would say homosexuality is not the original design for sexuality. Therefore, it's not good for human flourishing. We want people to do things that are good for human flourishing. But that's not what sends you to heaven or Hell.

Timothy Keller