Executorship Quotes & Sayings

You're very smart. Smarter than I am, I hope. Though of course I have such incredible vanity that I can't really believe that anyone is actually smarter than I am. Which means that I'm all the more in need of good advice, since I can't actually conceive of needing any. — Orson Scott Card

Gratitude is the well spring of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The man who pets a lion may tame it, but the man who coddles the body makes it ravenous. — John Climacus

Autumnal
nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses ... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth
reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke. — Tom Stoppard

They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions."
"Then why did you go into teaching?"
"It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils. — Brian Francis

Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously. — Sophy Burnham

Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand, Marron said quietly. — Veronica Rossi

When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment. — William Katt

I have an amazing ability to forget. — Gene Mauch

You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. — Matt Damon

I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to see if the story is going to radiate spokes. Their literature has always done that and gifted me beautiful things. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Once a bureau is created, its staff becomes a tenacious political interest group, well placed to defend its budget and to make a case for expanding its activities. — Robert Higgs

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse. — Patrick Kavanagh

I got pregnant and turned 40 at the same time. — Sheila Walsh