Garcetti News Quotes & Sayings

Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me. — Joan Benoit

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting. — Louise Imogen Guiney

I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world. — Bob Shacochis

Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have "mortgaged the future"; though how the construction to-day of great and glorious works can impoverish the future, no man can see until his mind is beset by false analogies from an irrelevant accountancy. — Richard Davenport-Hines

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants. — Paul Halmos

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it. — Margaret Heffernan

Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness? — Jonathan Dunne

She scowled. "Take the jeans off." The corners of his mouth lifted in a sensual smile. "Is my submissive giving orders? — Lia Davis