Fermain Quotes & Sayings

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know. — Lewis Carroll

When I went to college, I majored in American literature, which was unusual then. But it meant that I was broadly exposed to nineteenth-century American literature. I became interested in the way that American writers used metaphoric language, starting with Emerson. — Marilynne Robinson

How much time and energy should companies invest in infrastructure and planning early on in anticipation of success? Spend too much and you waste precious time that could have been spent learning. Spend too little and you may fail to take advantage of early success and cede market leadership to a fast follower. — Eric Ries

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is the mark of a true saint that his sorrows remind him of his sins, and his sorrow for sin drives him to his God. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. — Howard Gordon

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb