Yats Grandview Quotes

#1. The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.

William Ralph Inge

#2. Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

John Cheever

#3. No disrespect' is a world away from respect--and admiration.

Susanne Dunlap

#4. Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon Van Der Meer

#5. But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#6. There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.

Steve Ballmer

#7. You mean if a good hunter did this it was on purpose?

Louise Penny

#8. I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

Hedi Slimane

#9. There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

Heraclitus

#10. Solitude is addictive. Once you discover how peaceful it is, you no longer want or need to deal with people anymore.

Nicola Haken

#11. Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.

Edmund Waller

#13. In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

Patrick Dempsey

#14. Rampant eclecticism is my middle name.

Linda Ronstadt