11x17 Quotes & Sayings

I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're an entrepreneur. — Tory Burch

I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom. — Laura Prepon

Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.' — Salman Rushdie

I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face. — Stephen Rea

I have my whole life organized on an 11x17-inch tear-away weekly calendar. — Brooke Burke

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year. — Haruki Murakami

Interior of his purposes ... . It's not the latest message, but more like the oldest — Rick Warren

Twenty-first-century attitudes towards time and our expectations of story are very different from the shape of Mary Anning's life. She spent day after day, year after year, doing the same thing on the beach. I have taken the events of her life and condensed them to fit into a narrative that is not stretched beyond the reader's patience. Hence events, while in order, do not always coincide exactly with actual dates and time spans. Plus, of course, I made up plenty. For instance, while there was gossip about Mary and Buckland and Mary and Birch, there was no proof. That is where only a novelist can step in. — Tracy Chevalier

People use to say that time can change everything but as far as I know the nothing can change the tease inside your heart . — Nutan Bajracharya

When you have understood the piece of the world you want to change, and aligned your will with the world as it actually is, then and only then can you begin to change it; — Steven Brust

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. — Francois Truffaut

The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the completed theory, including the establishing its validity. That is, he is not interested in the context of discovery, but in the context of justification. — Hans Reichenbach

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process. — W. Edwards Deming