Dambrosio Chevrolet Quotes & Sayings

You get to thinking of the Earth as an organism, a living thing. You get to worry about it, care for it, wish it well. National boundaries are as invisible as meridians of longitude, or the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The boundaries are arbitrary. The planet is real. Spaceflight, therefore, is subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in Earth orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts. The nations that had instituted spaceflight had done so largely for nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who entered space received a startling glimpse of a transnational perspective, of the Earth as one world. It — Carl Sagan

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. — Dean Koontz

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. — Colin Angle

Protest. Vianne was not alone in her desire to pretend — Kristin Hannah

We've been taught a watered-down version of following Jesus for so long that people think it's Christianity, but it's not biblical. — Francis Chan

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. — John Cage

The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre. — Antonin Artaud

The story of how He created the world aroused their interests immediately, even though they received no answer to the question of why He had to do it; but they found it difficult to understand sin, or the manner of its entry into the world, for it was a complete mystery to them why the woman should have had such a passionate desire for an apple when they had no idea of the seductive properties of apples and thought they were some sort of potatoes. But less intelligible still was the flood that was caused by forty days' rain, and forty nights'. For here on the moors there were some years when it rained for two hundred days and two hundred nights, almost without fairing; but there was never any Flood. — Halldor Laxness

A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about. — William Feather

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it. — Thomas Boswell

the early 1980s, the A&W fast-food restaurant chain introduced a burger with a third of a pound of beef to compete with McDonald's popular quarter pounder. Although most customers preferred A&W's new burger in taste tests, it was a big disappointment in the marketplace. When focus groups were run to get to the bottom of this paradox, A&W discovered that many customers thought a burger with one-third of a pound of beef was less generous than one with one-quarter of a pound. Customers were attending to the denominator, just not very intelligently: The smaller "3" led many to conclude that one-third is smaller than one-quarter!21 — Thomas Gilovich

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. — Pope John Paul II