Ducotey Quotes & Sayings

By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. "What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character? — Plutarch

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it. — Samuel Johnson

I'm about to turn 60, and most of my memories reside in the brain of my wife. — Bill Atkinson

Amazon isn't happening to the book business," he likes to say to authors and journalists. "The future is happening to the book business.") — Brad Stone

They'd ever enjoyed. Almost everyone mentioned some nice experience at a Four Seasons or Ritz-Carlton hotel. — Walter Isaacson

It is a woman, and only a woman, - a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, - who can turn a house into a home. — Frances Power Cobbe

The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be. — Okisha Jackson

Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin. — Nadine Velazquez

You're not sure? Look at your own fingers. Are you not sure, if they are yours? Look at any part of you - it might be me that you are looking at! We are the same, you and I. We have been cut, two halves, from the same piece of shinning matter. Oh, I could say, I love you - that is a simple thing to say, the sort of thing your sister might say to her husband. I could say that in a prison letter, four times a year. but my spirit does not love yours - it is entwined with it. Our flesh does not love: our flesh is the same, and longs to leap to itself. It must do that or wither! You are like me. — Sarah Waters

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.' — Maurice Sendak