Dootalk Quotes & Sayings

Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away. — Emma Donoghue

He ran barefoot across the springy floor of the pine forest; he was dancing with the earth. — Richard Weihe

A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. — Catherynne M Valente

I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities. — Kevin Costner

Take a child & teach him physics his first 7 grades of education, I submit he'd excel to a savant-like level. Imagine adult focus for 7 yrs. — Ace Antonio Hall

He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it. — Colin Cotterill

I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him. — Nelson Mandela

Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. — Gian Carlo Menotti

In summer, we grow younger and stay young forever. — Debasish Mridha

Everyone tells me that I have a very sweet face! I'd like to change that. I wish I had a more flexible face! — Soundarya

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially. — Indra Nooyi

The difference between what we are and what we want to be, is what we do. — Luis Gutierrez-Poucel

Don't blame me," Jason protested. "All I did was ask an innocent question. I'm not the one telling Gwen she has to get out."
"I said that's enough!" Frank smacked the table hard. "We're not going to talk about it anymore, and we're not going to hand out blame. Is that clear, Jason? If Gwen can handle this in a mature way, there's no reason for you to raise the roof."
Now they were both looking at Gwen, waiting for her to show how mature she was. "I think," she began. "I think--" She swallowed hard. "I think I'm going to be sick." With a hand pressed over her mouth, she dashed out of the room and up the stairs, making it to the bathroom just in time.
Afterward, she sat on the bathroom floor and leaned against the old-fashioned footed tub. Three people out of five, she thought wryly. It would be laughable, the way she and Dena and Tessie had leaped up and run, one after the other, if it weren't so sad. — Betty Ren Wright

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love. — William Maxwell