Emiriana Quotes & Sayings

On females officiating in the NBA -Incompetence should not be confined to one sex. — Bill Russell

Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm getting out before I get in. The position size on a trade is determined by the stop, and the stop is determined on a technical basis. I never think about other people who may be using the same stop, because the market shouldn't go there if I am right — Bruce Kovner

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all. — Peter Sotos

He takes my hand and kisses my fingers then turns my hand around and kisses the inside of my wrist. — Beth Burnett

I wonder how many people actually realize how blessed they are & know without a shadow of doubt that God has them covered. — LaNina King

One day I was speculating on how I would like to look back on life and I decided I wanted to feel that I was a photographer rather than a teacher. As simple as that. — David Hurn

Get back, you defaulting maggots!" Racso's bellow always made me flinch, each utterance of it scoring the hate I had for him a little deeper. The debtors moved back from the bars as Racso's baton rattled across them, the actual maggots stayed where they were, chewing on the ruins of Artos Mantona's eyeballs with tiny mouths. "Back! — Mark Lawrence

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. — Harvey MacKay

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; — Henry David Thoreau

We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human. — Joe Torre

A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever. — Leo Tolstoy

The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. — Jimmy Wales

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome. — Mary Collyer

I didn't know who Avedon was. I was 18 years old. I dropped out of high school in the 10th grade. I had no idea. — Rene Russo

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him. — W.G. Sebald