Twelve Years Down The Drain Quotes

#1. I'd forced books on my kids from the day they were born and, as it turned out, it had been completely unnecessary because all of them liked to read. Or maybe they liked to read because I'd read aloud nearly every children's book in print.

Jeff Shelby

#2. What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them.

Oliver Sacks

#3. Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.

Prince Fielder

#4. Years, lovers, and glasses of wine. These are things that should never be counted.

Anthony Capella

#5. I don't think people have made staples by hand since the fifteenth century.

Lemony Snicket

#6. My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

Kiran Bedi

#7. In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Saul Griffith

#8. I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of pigeonhole or a label.

Louis L'Amour

#9. I came from the stage so it was a different kind of acting, or a different arena of acting, and I just loved to do it as a kid. It's really gratifying to get to create these different characters and to get to create different voices and to get to wear different clothes.

Freddy Rodriguez

#10. Brightness," the man said as she stepped up to him, "we aren't what you think we are."
"No," Shallan replied. "You aren't what you think yourselves to be.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

C.D. Darlington

#12. At long last, I had found myself vulnerable to the worst of New York City, because at 44 my life was not so different from the way it was at 24.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#13. The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Heinz Pagels

#14. To sit on the front steps - whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city - and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

Harvey Milk

#15. Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.

Lee R. Raymond

#16. A radical, who stood on top of an abandoned piano to declare that the fire was the friend of the poor and urge the crowd to help itself to what it wanted, was suddenly quieted by a well-aimed whiskey bottle.

Emmett Dedmon