Giscombe Interprofessional Leadership Quotes & Sayings

Outside the plate glass the world in the mist had become a pencil drawing executed in a dozen different grays with, here and there, a smudge of electric red or pure white. — Neil Gaiman

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. — Stephen Sondheim

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it. — Steven Stamkos

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. — Paulo Coelho

Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, .. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater. — David Garrow

[Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do. — Douglas Crimp

I think if you're against cruelty and you look at what happens to animals in slaughterhouses and on factory farms, you have to be completely against eating meat. — Ingrid Newkirk

A proven theorem of game theory states that every game with complete information possesses a saddle point and therefore a solution. — Richard Arnold Epstein

Observing people. A spark of idea for a story sometimes comes from the simple act of observation. — Ika Natassa

Some people like to travel by train because it combines the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure of an airplane. — Dennis Miller

Death should be celebrated ... when you put something in the ground you always know where it is — Tea Obreht

Step by step they were led to things which dispose to vice, the lounge, the bath, the elegant banquet. All this in their ignorance they called civilisation, when it was but a part of their servitude. — Tacitus

Never use the phrase: 'buy my book' - ever. — Heather Hart

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago. — David Foster Wallace

Writing is not the voice's shadow but the tracks of its steps. It is only thanks to writing that we can listen to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians even today, that we can hear their voices as full of life as if they had just spoken. My friend, only writing has the power to move a voice through time, and make it as immortal as the gods. — Rafik Schami