Vanmanu Quotes

#1. I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

Jeremy Irons

#2. The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system undercutting the Czech Republic in Poland. We've I think not dealt with Iran with the kind of resolve that would show that we understand the nature of that threat.

Rahm Emanuel

#3. Some people prefer the passenger role, because it imposes no real pressure to decide or stand accountable for their life results.

Phil McGraw

#4. Risotto is one of those dishes you just have to try a few times yourself, to teach yourself the moves and sounds and smells and textures. This is a guide map, but kind of a rough and tattered one.

Shauna Niequist

#5. Never doubt your abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.'

Doug Liman

#7. A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

Henry Petroski

#8. Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Curt Gowdy

#9. The older you get the more it seems the world belongs to other people.

Bill Bryson

#10. What connections and experiences have I missed because I'm either remembering a former embarrassment or fearing a new one?

Emily P. Freeman

#11. It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Steve Forbert