Eckowood Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk. — John Steinbeck

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. — Stephen Covey

Senator Paul Sarbanes really was a big help to me. He was so well known and so well respected, and he said, "Give her a chance here." And he showed me the ways of power and the corridors of power, [as did] Bob Byrd. [They] helped with [my] committee assignments. — Barbara Mikulski

He replies (four minutes later):
Anyone who throws a glass of wine in someone's face has to expect to be talked about.
Shit.
I think about what to reply and (nine minutes later) settle on:
That was bar theatre. You wouldn't guess it, but everyone involved was an actor. Even the
wine was acting. — Gemma Burgess

It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated. — Laura San Giacomo

I've been variations of vegetarian for over 20 years. I'm Canadian so I always say, be the best you can be. — Pamela Anderson

There really isn't a good way to tell a relative stranger that you think dead people are trying to tell you something. It's personal information. It's like telling someone you just met that you have a yeast infection. It might be true, but it's not the kind of thing people want to know about you. Plus, you know that every time they see you after that it will be the first thing they think about: There she is, the girl with the yeast infection/ghost problem. — Eileen Cook

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. — Richard Thompson

I should have sold you to that traveling circus when you were four. — Tara Sivec

If we don't trust one another, then we aren't going to engage in open, constructive, ideological conflict. — Patrick Lencioni

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth. — Gloria Steinem

A pen name is a nickname. — A.D. Posey

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. — Harold Macmillan

There has been an awful lot of time and money spent looking at the president over the last four years The American people saw through those investigations. They voted for the president. And despite all of this time and attention, nothing has turned up because the president and the first lady did nothing wrong. — George Stephanopoulos

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good. — Virgil Thomson