Calgary Author Quotes & Sayings

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. — Will Rogers

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you. — Harper Lee

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field. — Michael Spence

I like to define networking as cultivating mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships ... The end result may be to develop a large and diverse group of people who will gladly and continually refer a lot of business to us, while we do the same for them. — Bob Burg

Don't expect the answers overnight. This isn't a fortune cookie.
- The Duke to Delaine; discussing dating after divorce, Chapter 9 — Delaine Moore

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves. — Susan Anton

I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations. — David Hilbert

The wars not over, but this battle is. It's time to pick up the pieces and move forward. — Christine Warren

The real purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you. — Ransom Riggs

Instead of seeking to pinpoint blame, seek to understand cause. — Neale Donald Walsch

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure? — Megan Chance

The emotional mind likewise transcends the facile and appealing dualism separating its psychological and biological aspects. Physical mechanisms produce one's experience of the world. Experience, in turn, remodels the neurons whose chemoelectric messages create consciousness. Selecting one strand of that eternal braid and assigning it primacy is the height of capriciousness. (168) — Thomas Lewis

As thy days are so shall thy strength be.d harder so ur overcoming strength — Ikechukwu Joseph

Fascism is not fashion. — Theodore Dalrymple

An actor uses his body as a tool and an instrument. In the same way a musician plays an instrument, the actor uses his body to convey feeling and emotion. An animator uses a pencil or a computer to create the same thing, the same exact way. An actor is taking words that are not his own, and he has to bring some kind of authentic life to those words. It's the same goal, to create this authentic life. Even if it's a drawing, or if it's a cartoon, you're still trying to create authenticity because, if the character emotes authentically, it has a power to connect with the audience. — Rob Minkoff

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people. — Maya Angelou