Frendo Mariannelund Quotes & Sayings

As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Adam M. Grant

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear. — Criss Jami

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession. — Stefan Sagmeister

Conceit causes more conversation than wit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes I thought it might be nice not to make any choices. If I never had one, I could never screw it up. — Jim Butcher

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. — Anthony Doerr

All along - not only since she left, but for a decade before - I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who - because no one thought she was a person - had no one to really talk to. — John Green

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. — Edith Wharton

I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody. — Stephen Colbert

You have it within your power to simplify your situation. Just be sure that every decision you make, every choice you make, is motivated by love. If you do that, what is meant to be will be. — Emily March

It was clear that Eleanor had been to bed with a large and random collection of people, but when I suggested she go to bed with me, she said, 'I don't think we should, just at the moment, do you?' As a man I found this pretty fucking insulting. — Hanif Kureishi

We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it. — T.C. Boyle