Akdemia Quotes & Sayings

I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road. — Kenny Chesney

Lorenzo saved my ass. Again.
"I got you," Lorenzo says. "How many times do I have to tell you that before you believe it?"
"Probably a few more times."
"And I thought I told you to stay out of trouble," he says, scolding me. "I even asked nicely."
"Yeah, well, the trouble with trouble is that it doesn't always look like trouble, Lorenzo."
"This was very obviously trouble, woman. — J.M. Darhower

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts. — Apuleius

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph. — John Updike

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. — Ferdinand Porsche

The phrase 'for naught' is simply a fancy way of saying 'for nothing,' and it doesn't matter which phrase you use, for they are both equally difficult to admit. — Lemony Snicket

She brings out my inner bitch better than anyone I've ever known — Jodi Ellen Malpas

It's really hard work being a model. — Jasmine Guinness

A young wine is like a horse, it is extremely vibrant. It needs taming. It has lots of life, the edges need bevelling and we need to reduce the tannins. — Georg Riedel

Rather than relying on a notebook, you should work with two spreadsheets on your computer; you use one to list all the companies you're aware of in the field or fields you're interested in and the other to list every single contact you have. — Kate White

As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it. — Gregory Maguire

It also works the other way around: the more you love any person (human or divine), the more you want to know him (or Him) better, and the more you do. And this always causes deep joy. — Peter Kreeft

Government ... is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection. — Andrew Horning

The being struck dumb. It's like some combination of invisibility and being buried alive, in terms of the feeling. It's like being strangled somewhere deeper inside you than your neck. — David Foster Wallace