909 Burien Quotes & Sayings

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken. — P. J. O'Rourke

It could be argued that all leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead. It's the capacity to see the most creative and improbable opportunities in the marketplace. It's the capacity to see with an appreciative eye the true and the good, the better and the possible. — David Cooperrider

Censure no more shall brand my humble name
The child of passion and the fool of fame — George Gordon Byron

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. — Robert Plant

Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the single, simple human life that we all more or less lead, with its crude elementals of nurture and appetite, love and competition, the sunshine of well-being and the inevitable night of death. We each live this tale. Fiction has no reason to be embarrassed about telling the same story again and again, since we all, with infinite variations, experience the same story. — John Updike

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla

I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family. — Shilpa Shetty

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness. — Malachy McCourt

I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies. — Ville Valo

There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do. — Marilyn French

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. — David Lloyd George

I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. — Susan Beth Pfeffer