Alhadeff Studio Quotes & Sayings

I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the methodical path of the Jesuits ... It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation. DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that all can reach salvation. — Umberto Eco

What I like about organizing things that way is that each story gets nearly full reign over its own space, but all of them are hung on a single string - the loosely-reined voice mentioned above. Thus the collection jogs away from suzerainty and past federation toward, I guess, alliance. Or maybe call each story a separate house on a single street? Or it's all a line of dive bars on some wharf front? What the hell, let's call reading the collection a pub crawl, but with words. — Roy Kesey

Credibility is a basic survival tool. — Rebecca Solnit

I knew I was too late - and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live. — Stephenie Meyer

We're never a hundred percent in control in life, Nina. We just think we are. Something bigger than us is always in the driver's seat. What we can control is our perception, our reactions to things. We can also control whether we choose to live life or live in fear. — Penelope Ward

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it. — Gene Sarazen

THE TINY SPIDERS that lived in the higher branches of the downed tree (which now meant the branches that lay on the other side of the crushed fence that separated front yard from back) were bright red. At the end of the day, even the careful children had the marks of them, bloody starbursts on their palms. And the smell of the green wood, the tender leaves — Alice McDermott

It's my red hair that interferes with my good sense. All that color so close to my brain, it plum disorients me most days. — Kimberly Frost

Some people 'go' through life; and other people 'grow' through life. Which one are you? — Robert Holden

It was the worst hurt he had ever known. — Jack London

My fear of anger taught me nothing. — Audre Lorde

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. — Benjamin Disraeli