Alums Parvifolia Quotes & Sayings

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. — Joyce Carol Oates

Quality planning consists of developing the products and processes required to meet customer's needs — Joseph M. Juran

All our science and philosophy form only an island of knowledge surrounded by an ocean of mystery. The larger the island grows, the longer the shoreline where the known meets the unknown. — Ralph Washington Sockman

Of course Americans celebrate Independence Day as opposed to Yorktown Day. Who wants to barbecue a hot dog and ponder how we owe our independence to the French navy? Who wants to twirl sparklers and dwell on how the French government's expenditures in America contributed to the bankruptcy that sparked the French Revolution that would send Rochambeau to prison, Lafayette into exile (then prison), and our benefactor His Most Christian Majesty Louis XVI to the guillotine. — Sarah Vowell

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this. — Saoirse Ronan

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary. — Carter G. Woodson

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly. — William Shakespeare

Boy, you just can't kill people like you used to, — James Patterson

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work ... the people around you just have to understand. — Catherine Yass

I guess I don't come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they don't match up, I find it frustrating. — Graeme Base

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not? — Ben Shahn

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. — Humphrey Bogart

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that. — Kathryn Bigelow