Baldone Quotes & Sayings

It is easier to talk about money
and much easier to talk about sex
than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - — Marisha Pessl

We live in a countdown. — Cristiane Serruya

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance. — Lee Iacocca

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked. — Adam Yauch

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. Any break from routine may herald for them unbearable news. — Maya Angelou

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world. — Dan Miller

Snuffleupagus was real. — Joe Hill

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty

My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by. — Ryan Sypek

Argentina. The word itself had lost little of its power to startle and had, due to my ignorance of the physical place it occupied on the globe, assumed a peculiar life of its own. There was the harsh Ar at the beginning, which called up gold, idols, lost cities in the jungle, which in turn led to the hushed and sinister chamber of Gen, with the bright, interrogative Tina at the end - all nonsense, of course, but then it seemed in some muddled way that name itself, one of the few concrete facts available to me, might itself be a cryptogram or clue. — Donna Tartt

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be. — Epictetus

You cannot sedate all the things you hate. — Marilyn Manson

My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.' — Barbara Ehrenreich

Your subjects have had a history - try to reveal it in your picture. — Howard Pyle