Conlans Quotes & Sayings

With every new day come the Lord's great love, grace and mercies. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable. — Thomas Jefferson

The hard-drinking newspaperman is, or used to be, a stock character of fiction. Now he is being phased out of literature just as he is being phased out of life. — Waverley Root

I cringed a little at the position of power i'd been granted, and all because I had won at the genetic lottery that had determined my sex. — Khaled Hosseini

The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value. — W. Eugene Smith

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do. — Twyla Tharp

RVM Thoughts for Today
Although we know that our earthly journey will end one day , we continue chasing millions which we finally have to leave behind. — R.v.m.

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling. — Vincent D'Onofrio

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. — James Joyce

And there's a woman dressed in white, who's nice to hear, and soft to touch, and she whispers, 'Colette, I love you very much' I have a place where no one is ost, and where no one cries, because crying is not aloud, on my Castle In the Clouds — Victor Hugo

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise. — Salman Rushdie

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip. — Marco Rubio

Man is not himself only ... He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources ... He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys. — Mary Hunter Austin

The public shareholders who invested with Buffett also got rich, and in exactly the same proportion to their capital that Buffett did. The numbers themselves are almost inconceivable. If one had invested $10,000 when Buffett began his career, working out of his study in Omaha in 1956, and had stuck with him throughout, one would have had an investment at the end of 1995 worth $125 million.2 — Roger Lowenstein

I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. — Nathaniel Rich