Dr Covey Quotes & Sayings

We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING.
People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing. — Terry Pratchett

Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath? — Thomas Watson

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors. — Chinua Achebe

Wouldn't it be wonderful if every home had good books instead of knick-knacks and plastic flowers on the bookshelves? And wouldn't it be great if every child heard good speech and received thoughtful answers to their questions instead of 'be quiet' or 'go to bed'? — Ernest L. Boyer

Pets in the Afterlife [10w]
All dogs go to heaven;
all iguanas go to hell. — Beryl Dov

If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me. — Guy Maddin

Whether you have a Ph.D., or no D, we're in this bag together. And whether you're from Morehouse or Nohouse, we're still in this bag together. Not to fight to try to liberate ourselves from the men - this is another trick to get us fighting among ourselves - but to work together with the black man, then we will have a better chance to just act as human beings, and to be treated as human beings in our sick society. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Dogs don't mind being photographed in compromising situations. — Elliott Erwitt

Gnarls Barkley is an alter ego and something like an out of body experience. — CeeLo Green

The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price. — Norman Granz

I'm sorry," says Linus.
"Don't be sorry," I say, almost aggressively. "You didn't say anything."
Which is true. He didn't say anything. He stopped mid-sentence.
Except that stopping mid-sentence is the worst thing people can do. It's, like, partially aggressive, because you can't take issue with anything they've said. You have to take issue with what you think they were going to say.
Which they then deny. — Sophie Kinsella

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours. — Kemp Muhl

You want a judge who makes objective decisions, and that's why temperament is such an important component of being a judge. You have to earn people's respect, because they know that you are deciding the case based on the facts and the law, not because they're trying to be your friend. — Steven Pacey