Speyer Quotes

#1. I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.

Leonora Speyer

#3. He that comes in print because he would be known, is like the fool that comes into the market because he would be seen.

John Lyly

#4. Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the scene of the crime.

Terry Pratchett

#5. My lips have always been yours to kiss.

Lacey Weatherford

#6. It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.

Jerry Speyer

#7. I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.

Leonora Speyer

#8. I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

Sam Wyly

#9. You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.

Joell Ortiz

#10. I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.

Jerry Speyer

#11. The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.

Leonora Speyer

#12. I think we can bring a new retail language to Rockefeller Center that would really change Midtown.

Jerry Speyer

#13. Stifling your emotions is not the way. Ignoring your emotions is not the way. Your emotions carry important messages for you. Take the time to receive the meaning.

Stevie Puckett

#14. Friends, huh?" Rush said, coming to stand beside me.
"Yeah. She's decided we can be friends," I told him ...
"I tried the friends thing with Blaire once. It lasted less than a week before I was stripping her naked in the back of my Range Rover. Good luck with that.

Abbi Glines

#15. You don't have to be a doctor to know when a relationship is not healthy.

Jodyne L. Speyer

#16. For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.

Jerry Speyer

#17. One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.

Jerry Speyer

#18. Our biggest challenge is how to create a self-renewing company.

Gary Hamel

#19. Love has a hundred gentle ends.

Leonora Speyer

#20. I think of real estate as a little bit like cooking or like art.

Jerry Speyer

#21. Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards.

Chris Guillebeau

#22. Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

Zadie Smith

#23. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.

Christopher Hitchens