Birks Sterling Quotes & Sayings

A well-informed mind,' he would say, 'is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within. Thought, and cultivation, are necessary — Ann Radcliffe

He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.
[He that praiseth himself spatteteth himself.] — George Herbert

Sometimes you've gotta wreck the truck to get the insurance money to make the payment on the truck. — Larry The Cable Guy

If people think about options in terms of their features rather than as a whole, different options may rank as second best (or even best) with respect to each individual feature. — Barry Schwartz

If I was elected God for a day, homosexuality wouldn't be permitted, but nobody's electing me God. — Mark Neumann

Author branding is the process of positioning an author as the center of attraction and influence, to be the preferred choice in a given theme, style, category, niche or genre — Bernard Kelvin Clive

No one seemed to realize calculating sums requires only the most basic machinery and good concentration. Poetry is far more difficult. And palindromes, with their perfect, satisfying taste: Draw a level award! Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression. — Barbara Kingsolver

There are lovers content with longing.
I'm not one of them. — Rumi

It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that. — Steve Sampson

Maybe kids are like parents - we don't pick them, you know? We just gotta work with what we've got. — Jenny B. Jones

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high. — Philippe Petit

There is a great deal more to evolutionary biology than survival of the fittest - although that's all anyone seems to remember. One of Darwin's contemporaries was Alfred Russel Wallace, who had even more profound lessons about evolution - that humans are social creatures. That we coevolve with other species as part of a fabric of interwoven and interdependent life-forms. The world isn't entirely about competition and dominance. And species that cooperate with others succeed better than those who do not. That's what civilization is, cooperation." "And — Daniel Suarez

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time. — Mindy McCready

I have always been obsessed with naming things. If I could name them, I could know them. If I could name them, I could tame them. They could be my friends. — Eve Ensler