Zempel Fence Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

Enric Sala

#2. The capacity for tears is the last demonstration of greatness.

G. Campbell Morgan

#3. I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

Joel Osteen

#4. They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Jane Austen

#5. Not the power to conquer others
But the power to become one with others
is the ultimate power.

Sri Chinmoy

#6. For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself.

Plato

#7. I spend a lot of time thinking, if not daydreaming. People think of me as a genre writer, and a genre writer is supposed to be prolific. Since that's how people perceive me, they have to say I'm prolific. But I don't find that either complimentary or accurate.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out, for the first time in either of their lives.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

Oscar Wilde

#10. I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

Patti LuPone

#11. and of course people started shooting, because that's what passes for problem-solving among humans. See, guys, this is why you can't have nice things. It

Erin Bow

#12. The deeper and subtler effects of the economic dimension of globalization intensify the politics of insecurity.

Andrew Rojecki

#13. If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.

Carter Burwell

#14. Why do I matter to you?" I say, my voice breaking.
"You don't."
"Then why are you doing this?"
"Because I can. Because I slept for five hundred years and now I want some sport.

Melinda Salisbury

#15. Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.

Calvin Trillin