Dinaro Did That Quotes & Sayings

When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you. — Gabrielle Bernstein

"I'm a guy like this," Gino explained to Jeanie; "I like anythin' against the odds. I don't like nothin' safe. I'm a guy like this too: I don't like gettin' caught. But mostly I'm a guy like this: I don't like gettin' laughed at."
He lived as he drove, as he gambled and as he loved: for keeps. Taking no man's laughter. And letting the small stakes go. — Nelson Algren

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe. — Jen Lilley

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?" — Carl Reiner

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain. — Jaron Lanier

Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient. — Dina Merrill

These angels look like the type to be heavily scarred by battle wounds, but instead they have the kind of perfectly unmarred skin prom queens around the country would kill their prom kings for. — Susan Ee

Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?' — Kate Atkinson

Far worse, though, was a low, powerful moaning at dusk. The wind off the sea and the odd interior stillness dulled our ability to gauge direction, so that the sound seemed to infiltrate the black water that soaked the cypress trees. This water was so dark we could see our faces in it, and it never stirred, set like glass, reflecting the beards of gray moss that smothered the cypress trees. If you looked out through these areas, toward the ocean, all you saw was the black water, the gray of the cypress trunks, and the constant, motionless rain of moss flowing down. All you heard was the low moaning. The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you. As — Jeff VanderMeer

A fictional, but all too real, look at extremist militias in the United States and the extent to which some of them go to carry out their 'missions'. — Jon Niccum

Life is like a beautiful bird that comes to your hand.If you let it go,it will fly into the sky,never to return.-RVM — R.v.m.