Friday Raining Quotes & Sayings

ozone and particulate matter contribute to 8,800 deaths and $71 billion in health care costs every year. The connection with global warming is nothing more than simple chemistry. Higher temperatures increase the formation of ground-level ozone and particulate matter. Ambient ozone also reduces crop yields and harms the ecosystem. — Heidi Cullen

Business schools reward complex behavior but it's the simple behavior that makes you successful in life — John C. Maxwell

It's Curt Schilling and his bloody sock staring down the Yankees in the Bronx. It's Derek Lowe taking the mound the very next night to complete the most improbable comeback in baseball history - and then seven days later clinching the World Series. It's Pedro Martinez and his six hitless innings of postseason relief against the Indians. Yes, it is also Cy Young and Roger Clemens, and the 192 wins in a Red Sox uniform that they share - the perfect game for Young, the 20 strikeout games for Clemens - but it is also Bill Dinneen clinching the 1903 World Series with a busted, bloody hand, and Jose Santiago shutting down Minnesota with two games left in the season to keep the 1967 Impossible Dream alive, and Jim Lonborg clinching the Impossible Dream the very next day, and Jim Lonborg again, tossing a one-hitter and a three-hitter in the 1967 World Series, and Luis Tiant in the 1975 postseason, shutting out Oakland and Cincinnati in back-to-back starts. They are all winners. — Tucker Elliot

I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body. — Jessica Hart

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them. — James Surowiecki

Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front. — Tom Metzger

The Startup Act should give all Americans, not just immigrants, a better shot at being tomorrow's engineers and entrepreneurs. And that opportunity could begin at a young age with education in computer programming. — Marvin Ammori

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. — Bill Bryson

Left to their own devices, women would stop having sex after they have children. There's no evolutionary need for it. Our brains know it, our body knows it. Who feels sexy during the slog of motherhood, the middle-aged fat roll and the flattening butt? — Maria Semple

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Human beings in stressful relationships will frequently behave in ways that contradict or even reverse their own most certain expectations. — Donald Antrim

I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt. — Olivia Wilde

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world, — Robin Williams

A little thought thought over and over becomes the thought that changes everything. Always choose to believe the best about yourself. — Toni Sorenson

New York is the great stone desert. — Israel Zangwill