Taillard Capital Quotes

#1. I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. And it's Gryffindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle - Flint alongside her - poke him in the eye, Angelina! - it was a joke, Professor, it was a joke - oh no - Flint in possession, Flint flying toward the Gryffindor goal posts, come on now, Wood, save - !

J.K. Rowling

#3. Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he's kissing me one last time.

Marie Lu

#4. The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Peter Davison

#5. Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

Martin Cruz Smith

#6. I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Sylvester Stallone

#7. The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Eknath Easwaran

#9. Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

Kay Arthur

#11. It's like she thinks she did me a favor by raising me to believe that the entire world was out to get me, by making sure I never get my hopes up.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. Allie-Cat? Oh help me Rhonda. He's given me a pet name.

Elle Kennedy