Aldenderfer National Geographic Quotes & Sayings

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official. — Kenneth Langone

Inspiration is a tool and a trap. If you're going to be inspired by anyone, be inspired by people who have been exactly where you are now. — Douglas Copeland

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it. — Daniel Gillies

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Editing is the most companionable form of education. — Ed Weeks

In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. — Thomas H. Davenport

Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued. — Evan Meekins

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. — Saul Steinberg

Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about [history] than I know already. [ ... ] Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only
finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember that your nature and you past doings have been kist like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'. [ ... ] I shouldn't mind learning why
why the sun do shine on the just and the unjust alike, [ ... ] but that's what books will not tell me. — Thomas Hardy

I have a sneaking suspicion that you're not 100% committed to your Oreo diet. — Becky Albertalli

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning. — Charles Bukowski

I use a lot of spices, fresh veggies and fruit, extra virgin olive oil, nuts, avocado, soybeans and organic ingredients as often as possible. We need fat in our diets and using the healthier fats is key. — Todd English

You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you — Barbara Freethy