Couldnt Pick Quotes & Sayings

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools. — Eli Broad

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime. — Cary Fukunaga

It's strange how you're sometimes forced to assume an unsympathetic view of yourself through borrowed eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor

When I was younger, I thought about retiring. — Tanya Tucker

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet. — Patrick Rothfuss

He showed his love and determination by burning her BMW and strangling her cat, then — David Morrell

I had never realized what grand things air and sunlight are till I had been deprived of them. — Harriet Jacobs

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and our satellite TV. But whether you like it or not, you need family or community. — Chang-rae Lee

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us. — Edwidge Danticat

So crosses don't do anything against your kind?" Sean asked.
"No," Arland said. "There is no mystical force repelling us."
"Then why?"
"We're forbidden to kill a creature in a moment of prayer or invocation of their deity. Well, we can, technically, but you have to do penance and purify yourself and nobody wants to spend weeks praying and bathing themselves in the sacred cave springs. The water's only a fraction warmer than ice. When one of you holds up a cross, it's difficult to determine whether you're praying, invoking, or just waving it around. So the sane strategy is to back away. — Ilona Andrews

Financial institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks-when one fails, they all fall ... We have moved from a diversified ecology of small banks, with varied lending policies, to a more homogeneous framework of firms that all resemble one another. True, we now have fewer failures, but when they occur ... I shiver at the thought. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I hope you achieve what you two are trying to do," Rick said. "Just remember, the answer is almost never where everyone else has been looking. And the answer is almost always covered up by some kind of danger. — Rich Hoffman