Colburn Quotes & Sayings

Only a very bold country would mix vodka and clams. The cocktail, also known as the Bloody Caesar, was invented in 1969 by Canadian hero Walter Chell, who crushed fresh clams into tomato juice and added plenty of vodka. Americans can now take the easy route by buying Clamato off the shelf. — Kerry Colburn

Any thought or action that you repeat over and over will eventually become a new habit. — Brian Tracy

If there was one thing she'd learned in this business, it was to never tell a client you couldn't do something. — Timothy Zahn

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved. — Lynn Clark

It's hard to think of the divide where I grew up as a watershed. The creeks are dry most of the year, rainfall is undependable at best, and folks in one river system are always trying to steal water from another. — Faith A. Colburn

It took losing all that I held dear for me to learn a valuable lesson: only when everything is gone are you truly free. — Laura Thalassa

Calling a nuclear group with a mom and a pop and their kids a family is like calling a field of bluestem a prairie. It's the rich diversity of grasses and forbs that makes a prairie work, just as it's the rich diversity of parents and children, grandparents and cousins, aunts and uncles providing nourishment and support that makes a family work. — Faith A. Colburn

They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one. — George R R Martin

I don't make deals, I make pictures. — Carlo Ponti

A book without conversation, is like a life without friends, you know it's going to end, but you want it to be soon. — Ken Balneaves

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments. — Hector Hugh Munro

I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School. — Jacqueline Emerson

The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story. — Nancy Kress

Music doesn't have a bedtime, — Garth Stein