Adelman Sand Quotes & Sayings

I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight, not to delude myself and think I was larger than I was. — Stephen J. Cannell

You are never persuasive when you're abrasive. — Rick Warren

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes. — Teju Cole

A well-meaning townie (W-MT) will sidle up to the desk. 'Any word on Tamerlane?' [Translation: May I turn over your significant personal loss for my own amusement?]
A.J. will reply, 'Nothing yet.' [Translation: Life still ruined.]
W-MT: Oh, I'm sure something will turn up. [Translation: Since I have no investment in the outcome of this situation, it costs me nothing to be optimistic.] — Gabrielle Zevin

Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole irreverent essence and everything raw and visceral that I stand for in it, but in the end I was promoting something that wasn't the animal I wanted it to be. I decided to face my problem head-on. — Kesha

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right. — Joyce Rachelle

Fear drains us, while love empowers us. — David Jeremiah

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway. — Wally Lamb

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness. — Jonathan Franzen

You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe things which didn't happen at all if they're told them enough times. — Paula Hawkins

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit. — Michael Kors

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion. — Isabel Allende

I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia. — Richie Allen

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace. — Tullian Tchividjian