Beijos Events Quotes & Sayings

I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people. — Barack Obama

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring. — Charles Kuralt

You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor there heavier. — N.D. Jones

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself. — Jean-Baptiste Say

Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally because of what others did to them when they were children. Sometimes our memory banks become warehouses of beliefs and feelings that cripple our progress. — H. Norman Wright

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. — Nicholas Negroponte

I am, to my core, Canadian, so, by osmosis, everything I write reflects that upbringing. — Elinor Florence

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert. — Harlan Ellison

Every space movie has a nutjob on the space ship, Henry says. And until you kill the nutjob, everybody's in danger. — Jason Gurley

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. — George Crumb

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. — Meriwether Lewis

America's peak years of indigenous innovation ran from the 1820s to the 1960s. There were a few financial panics and two depressions, to be sure. But in this period, a frenzy of creative activity, economic competition and rapid growth in national income provided widening economic inclusion, rising wages for all, and engaging careers for most. — Edmund Phelps