Chowning Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they're there because they understand. — Elena Tonra

I love becoming a character outside of who I am. Even when I was a little girl, I loved make believe, so I like it. — NeNe Leakes

the higher returns of the largest endowments are not due primarily to greater risk taking but to a more sophisticated investment strategy that consistently produces better results. — Thomas Piketty

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. — Grenville Kleiser

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy — Warsan Shire

We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have to make to these climate changes, and so it's extremely important to bear witness to what's happening. — Alison Hawthorne Deming

There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy. — R. Buckminster Fuller

It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real. — Kristin Cashore

Here is a home for you; maybe you need us. All my desires to be useful, successful, and productive revolted. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

My favorite fantasy? You come down into my daytime resting place stark naked," he said, and I could see the gleam of his teeth as he smiled. "Oh, wait," Bill said. "That's already happened. — Charlaine Harris

Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me? — H.M. Forester