Waisanen Quarry Quotes

#1. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Audre Lorde

#2. A person never rise by pulling others down.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Joyce Carol Oates

#4. There's always a way!

Anni Antoni

#5. How well he's read, to reason against reading!

William Shakespeare

#6. I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

Oscar Isaac

#7. I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Derek Sivers

#8. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.

Brent Schlender

#9. gone on Miss Lily.

Agatha Christie

#10. We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.

Carl Sagan

#11. You have been disappointed,you have undergone defeat during the depression, you have felt the great heart within you crushed until it bled. Take courage, for these experiences have tempered the spiritual metal of which you are made- they are assets of incomparable value.

Napoleon Hill

#12. Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

Sally Jenkins

#13. Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing.

Dick Cavett

#14. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Robert McNamara

#15. A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

Jackie Mason