Wickersham Quotes

#1. All I kin git out o' the Wickersham position on prohibition is that the distinguished jurist seems to feel that if we'd let 'em have it the problem o' keepin' 'em from gitten;' it would be greatly simplified

Kin Hubbard

#2. They'll be fine," Wickersham said. "Practice makes perfect."
I had to ask. "You practice running away?"
"We knew we'd make enemies. Other organizations have fire drills; we have oh-shit-someone-found-our-ass drills.

Scott Westerfeld

#3. But who is ever able to apply to her own current love affair a word like "similar"?

Joan Wickersham

#4. There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.

Joan Wickersham

#5. Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

William Shakespeare

#6. Those moments of knowing are sharp and merciless, but then they fade out, like stars when the sky gets light in the morning. You know, and then you don't know.

Joan Wickersham

#7. The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Bonaventure

#8. Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be lackeys in disguise, while the figures we have overlooked in the midst of the frenetic action unmask and reveal themselves as divinities. (160)

Joan Wickersham

#9. And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

Joan Wickersham

#10. Action achieves more than words.

Euripides

#11. Always choose love. Always choose the adventure. You'll never regret it.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#12. Don't let your past determine your destiny.

Confucius

#13. She knows by now that grief is about endurance, understanding over and over that the person you loved is not coming back.

Joan Wickersham

#14. The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

Oren Peli

#15. The death is unfortunate. It is an accident. It is not police atrocity . It is a small and petty matter.

Mamata Banerjee

#16. I'm a sailor, not a politician.

Fritz Sauckel

#17. When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.

Vint Cerf

#18. You're not a blade or an animal, Nathan. whatever awful things you were forced to do in your past don't define who you are today." She inched closer, braved the smallest caress of his stern jaw. " Nathan, you are not what they tried to make you.

Lara Adrian

#19. I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.

Bernard Manning

#20. I put it all to rest; my mind, my body, and all those nasty, gnawing fears. With each sip of tea, I become whole, one again, with me.

Dharlene Marie Fahl

#21. A story went around that someone had asked Mozart how he intended to refute his detractors.
"I will refute them with new works," he said.
It was a confident, valiant thing for him to say, everyone thought. I thought so too, when I invented the story; and I still believe it today. (172)

Joan Wickersham

#22. A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

Joan Wickersham

#23. If your bigs rim run at full speed it not only increases the potential for a quick layup, but opens up court for guards

Fred Hoiberg

#24. The word "miss" is so wistful. As is the word "wistful," for that matter. They both have sighs embedded in them, that "iss" sound. Which also sounds like if.

Joan Wickersham