Aslak Gjennestad Quotes & Sayings

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else. — Vince Lombardi

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools. — Thomas Hobbes

Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people. — Tucker Max

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit. — Darren Aronofsky

The sky all at once is overhead dim and grey, puzzle of blocks sprawl, their own horizon; the city looks like a cemetery full of weak daylight, cool and a little wrong, making Ella feel a little put upon, like leap-year day - nothing in itself, but a nudge jostling every other day. — Michael Cisco

It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The — Henry James

For a control freak, love and the desire to control others are synonymous. Once they lose control over the object of their desire, hostility takes over in full force. — Natalya Vorobyova

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it? — Libba Bray

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone. — Ernest Hemingway,

[I]nfinity is not part of the real world. — Morris Berman

Thanks to photography, the eye grew accustomed to anticipate what it should see and to see it; and it learned not to see nonexistent things which, hitherto, it had seen so clearly. — Paul Valery

I've always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don't get married in the abstract. You find someone that you'd like to be married to. — Condoleezza Rice

I just there for two days and that thought of what last words I could say to the firing squad. As good a pastime as any. — Ayn Rand

I used to be a workout fiend and I was so unhappy because I wanted to eat what I wanted to eat. So now if I know I have to be in a bikini, I'll obviously watch what I eat for a week. — Naya Rivera

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! The soldier who has chosen war for his profession in the midst of battle longs for peace, and in the security of peace hungers for the clash of sword and the chaos of the bloody field; the slave who sets himself against his unchosen servitude and by his industry purchases his freedom, then binds himself to a patron more cruel and demanding than his master was; the lover who abandons his mistress lives thereafter in his dream of her imagined perfection. — John Edward Williams