Wisconsins Digital Library Quotes

#1. People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

Philip Yancey

#2. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Ella Maillart

#3. Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. Don't ask me how he got here, or what he really is. I think we've all learned over the years that the sooner we accept the simple explanation for the unexplained, the better chance we have of surviving a crisis.

Christopher Moore

#5. They found that enjoyment-based intrinsic motivation, namely how creative a person feels when working on the project, is the strongest and most pervasive driver.

Daniel H. Pink

#6. No Matter what you do there will be critics.

Woody Allen

#7. After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.

Ron Chernow

#8. Only those with guts could bear a great life.

Toba Beta

#9. It's not the power of the curse, it is the power you give the curse.

Marilyn Kaye

#10. The essence is in the moment.

Derrick L. Randall

#11. So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

Michael Beschloss

#12. One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day.

Graham Moore