Tandwielen Korbo Quotes

#1. I watched as she, with a half-life-worth of anger and resolve, flickered into this dark night and tried with all her might to get back what was taken from her.

Mo Daviau

#2. Should we act on our unseen fears before the virtue of human kindness? Who's given us more, the Light's faith or that stranger? And if you choose to reject generosity, then what standing do we have left in this world, or in the hereafter, for that matter?

Janny Wurts

#3. Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.

Tom Stoppard

#4. The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

Susan Sontag

#5. I need a job and I want to be a paperback writer...

The Beatles

#6. No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama.-Inside Out and Back Again

Thanhha Lai

#7. Sitting alone in the cafeteria would just scream I'm the new girl. Everyone stare at me while I eat.

Kristi Cook

#8. William gave the gallerist a grim look. In my experience, he said, crooks are usually the least dishonest of the bunch. It's not in their interest to deceive you, sir. This is how they make their living. Be patient.

Steven Price

#9. The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.

Robert Pozen

#10. Golf is tougher than my first wife.

Ken Green

#11. The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.

Lev Grossman

#12. The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

George Soros

#13. My life was too short to acheive the conquest of the whole world ...

Genghis Khan

#14. The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese