Certainteed Quotes & Sayings

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight. — Guy Fraser-Sampson

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. — James Weldon Johnson

Faith is a record of great risks taken. — Winkie Pratney

The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news. — Randy Falco

His work was defined by emphasis on the subversiveness philosophy, which asks questions, as opposed to the self-satisfaction of politics, which believes it has answers and insists on them. — Harvey Mansfield

I am in the unthinkable situation that people cannot bear to contemplate. — Sonali Deraniyagala

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life. — Satchel Paige

I think words come between the spectator and the picture. — Howard Hodgkin

KING EDWARD: But what is he whom rule and empery
Have not in life or death made miserable? — Christopher Marlowe

We artists allow others to see through our windows. — Robert Genn

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. — E.P. Thompson

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. — P. J. O'Rourke

They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962 — Sylvia Plath

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. — Sebastian Thrun

Get used to disappointment. — William Goldman

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. — Chris Ware