Verdura Resort Quotes

#1. The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

Gary Paulsen

#2. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

Patrick Stewart

#3. Life is short. Don't be lazy.

Sophia Amoruso

#4. I love a good corset.

Juliet Rylance

#5. I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.

Nelson Algren

#6. You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.

Ernie Els

#8. The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

H.L. Mencken

#9. Give me love and work - these two only.

William Morris

#10. Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

James Surowiecki