Cellona Shoes Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision. I love that aspect of writing. Nothing makes me happier than to hear a reader say: that's just what I've always felt, but you said it clearly. — Zadie Smith

I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject. — Charles M. Blow

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated. — Marquis De Sade

In the first place, you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself. — J.D. Salinger

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit. — Paul J. Meyer

It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense. — Noam Chomsky

Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be. — Euripides

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear. — Vladimir Kramnik

I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with. — Gabe Newell

The animals listened first to Napoleon, then to Snowball, and could not make up their minds which was right; indeed, they always found themselves in agreement with the one who was speaking at the moment. — George Orwell

That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be. — John Scalzi

I did not choose my family. Fate chose me. — Joseph Ephraim

Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty. — Bob Marley

Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy. — Tina Yothers