Frommelt Dubuque Quotes & Sayings

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly ... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. — J.D. Salinger

When we look at investing, we always think about 'how defensible is this, how likely is it that somebody is going to copy this.' E-commerce tends to be something easy to copy because it's execution. — Niklas Zennstrom

It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society. — Tom Stoppard

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls? — Winston Churchill

I'm only leaving you
for a handful of days,
but it feels as though
I'll be gone forever - -
the way the door closes
behind me with such solidity,
the way my suitcase
carries everything
I'd need for an eternity
of traveling light.
I've left my hotel number
on your desk, instructions
about the dog and heating dinner. But
like the weather front
they warn is on its way
with its switchblades
of wind and ice,
our lives have minds
of their own. — Linda Pastan

They were on the edge of a desert now. Still - they had opened for business, had polished the glasses and wound the clocks and stirred the fires, and waited and waited to see who would come. There was no great flow of refugees from Dresden. The clocks ticked on, the fires crackled, the translucent candles dripped. And then there was a knock on the door, and in came four guards and one hundred American prisoners of war. The innkeeper asked the guards if they had come from the city. Yes. — Kurt Vonnegut

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage. — Geoff Dyer

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list. — Marilyn Vos Savant