Torgerson Quotes

#1. We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket.

George Carlin

#2. I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Giacomo Leopardi

#3. Just as Tom Gau could, through the persuasive force of his personality, serve as a Tipping Point in a word-of-mouth epidemic, the people who die in highly publicized suicides-whose deaths give others "permission" to die-serve as the Tipping Points in suicide epidemics.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.

K.P. Yohannan

#5. You can't build Europe against anyone.

Jacques Santer

#6. Simply put, the Blessed Virgin is a model of virtue that we should all hope to attain. By the choices she made, and her unwavering faith, she was an excellent example to follow.

Chad R. Torgerson

#7. I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Maeve Binchy

#8. I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

Paul Haggis

#9. Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf.

Jan Schakowsky

#10. When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.

Cornelia Funke

#11. The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

L. Neil Smith

#12. David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

Bat For Lashes