A Daughters Spunk Quotes & Sayings

The difference between the good and the great is the difference between your mindset and your skill set. In a world where skills are bountiful, and increasingly outsourced to cheaper parts of the world, we need more than skills to survive, let alone thrive. Mindset separates the best from the rest: the right mindset drives the right habits, which drive the right performance. — Jo Owen

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck ... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago ... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck. — Billy Joel

Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. — Robert South

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them. — William Empson

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance, his colleagues generally present him with a watch. — R. C. Sherriff

Faith is the absence of peace, and reflection of fear. — Lionel Suggs

To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. — Namie Amuro

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective. — Thalia

Which is all rather silly, because any woman setting out to make a living by the sword isn't about to go around looking like something off the cover of the more advanced kind of lingerie catalogue for the specialized buyer. — Terry Pratchett

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness. — Christopher Alexander

Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though! — Christa B. Allen

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama. — Neil Gaiman

This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy. — Archibald Geikie