Athnet Quotes & Sayings

People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or they suffocate. — Fredrik Backman

Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground. — Charles F. Glassman

Only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed — Dan Millman

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson

It's amazing how the more thankful I am, the more things I get to be thankful for. — Jeanette Coron

I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook. — Janeane Garofalo

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered. — Arthur Christiansen

I consider it somewhat psychopathic to label someone from afar as a psychopath. We love nothing more than to declare other people insane, especially people we don't like. — Jon Ronson

Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard. — Raymond Chandler

All family life is organized around the most damaged person in it. — Sigmund Freud

Sometimes you're noodling around with a sketch and something incongruous in the drawing calls forth the caption and other times you think of a line and just have to find a place for it. A cartoon with a caption like "I don't want to live forever, but I sure as hell don't want to be dead forever either" sprang into my head and I just had to find the right venue for it which was an old couple talking to each other. — Robert Mankoff

Merit has replaced the old system of inherited privilege, in which parents to the manner born handed down the manor to their children. But merit, it turns out, is at least partly class-based. Parents with money, education, and connections cultivate in their children the habits that the meritocracy rewards. When their children then succeed, their success is seen as earned. — The New York Times

Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity. — Neil Gaiman

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity. — Bill W.