Fikokomerc Quotes & Sayings

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves. — Jonathan Evison

The real challenge is when I'm at work, I'm at work. I'm locked in, I'm ready to go, I'm focused. When I'm at home, I'm locked in and I'm ready to go and I'm focused on home. We don't watch the show. We don't watch the news. We don't do any of that stuff. I sit down, I play Barbies. And sometimes the kids will come home and play with me. — Jon Stewart

Only love can save us. — N.R. Hart

The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. It alarmed me. — Peggy Orenstein

I'm so excited. Jay Leno is on the show tonight. He brought some really funny jokes and some great stories. Although I'm a little concerned he also brought his old desk and Kevin Eubanks. I just want Jay to be comfortable, but not too comfortable. — Jimmy Fallon

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose. — Mike Schmidt

I know that there is no such thing as an ordinary life. All lives shimmer and pulse with particularity, with richness and texture. — Martha Mason

Friendship isn't something we passively receive. Friendship is something we actively do. It's a gift we offer for free, not a demand we make with a stamping foot. — Lisa-Jo Baker

Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others. — Stewart Stafford

For what can be above the man who is above fortune? — Seneca.

I have not changed with the accomplishments. I've remained the same. If I had changed, great. You know, but I haven't. — Renee Fleming

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius

I don't take drugs, I take books. — Ingeborg Bachmann

I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show. — Aaron Douglas

Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' — Bill Gates