Cosner Executive Desk Quotes & Sayings

The world is big ... May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure. — Marguerite Yourcenar

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm. — Bill Gates

We're in a world where everything, even a lamp-post, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what kind of a seed a lamp-post grows from ... — C.S. Lewis

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map. — Richard Ford

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion. — Garrett Hardin

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents. — Andy Grove

More than nine-tenths of all literate men and women certainly read nothing but newspapers, and consequently model their orthography, grammar and style almost exclusively on them and even, in their simplicity, regard the murdering of language which goes on in them as brevity of expression, elegant facility and ingenious innovation; indeed, young people of the unlearned professions in general regard the newspaper as an authority simply because it is something printed. For this reason, the state should, in all seriousness, take measures to ensure that the newspapers are altogether free of linguistic errors. A — Arthur Schopenhauer

The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come. — Bill Keller

There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man's mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City. — Isaac Asimov

You Illyrian males are insufferable.
Rhys had just said, Good thing we make up for it with impressive wingspans. — Sarah J. Maas