Dvorek Quotes & Sayings

I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit new African surroundings. — Chinua Achebe

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. — Dale Carnegie

I'll probably never have children because I don't believe in touching people for any reason. — Paula Poundstone

But perhaps there is another, more personal reason for my disagreement with Ramin: I cannot imagine myself feeling at home in a place that is indifferent to what has become my true home, a land with no borders and few restrictions, which I have taken to calling "the Republic of Imagination." I think of it as Nabokov's "somehow, somewhere" or Alice's backyard, a world that runs parallel to the real one, whose occupants need no passport or documentation. The only requirements for entry are an open mind, a restless desire to know and an indefinable urge to escape the mundane. — Azar Nafisi

I hope that the United States would cooperate with the partners to reduce its debt. The debt is a problem. The debt is with you, but unfortunately, the debt is not only with you but with us and with the rest of the world because we all, one way or another, are dependent on the dollar. — Sergei Lavrov

I was gathering more insights into how George operated. He was a hustler for sure. That was obvious to me pretty early on. But his style is a little like mine; he disguises it with a charisma that feels trustworthy and probably *is* trustworthy, but edited for maximum effect. It's about disarming someone with your sincerity, which is legitimately sincere but also strategic, selective. Almost everyone does that - balances their personality to serve themselves given whatever the moment demands - but some people are really good at doing it and really good at hiding it. — Charlotte Shane

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. — James Thurber

I was probably 12 or 13 when I started doing pushups, situps, dips. — Bryce Harper

Every Imagination can be an Amazing Truth.. — Jan Jansen

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part. — Ron White

What freedom to be tied up, and still have the capability of ignoring ridiculous, silly conversations. — Sandra Staas

How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable? — Reza Aslan