Gitau Wa Quotes & Sayings

I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give you general areas to work in. They said, "Set 'My Fair Lady' in ancient Egypt."I came up with this idea about an Egyptian princess, and I gave her, as a sidekick, a little scarab. I had a telephone meeting with the executive "handling" me, and he said, "I looked over the notes. Very cute. But lose the beetle.Beetles don't talk." Well, how do you answer that? I said, "Excuse me just a moment, I've got a teacup calling me on the other line." — Charles Busch

Nature is not embarrassed by difficulties of analysis. She avoids complication only in means. Nature seems to be proposed to do much with little: it is a principle that the development of physics constantly supports by new evidence. — Jean Fresnel

they don't serve champagne at pity parties — Cara Alwill Leyba

With every other girl vying for his attention, why the heck would he notice a bookworm like me?" And — Cookie O'Gorman

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange. — Liane Moriarty

When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

The world is what it is, which is to say, nothing much. — Albert Camus

Her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. — Benjamin Franklin

The reader who is only superficially familiar with Caribbean affairs may find the materials of this volume strange. The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life of the region may cause surprise. The incongruous and rather unreal quality of many events, whether fanciful or farcical in appearance, may also prove unexpected. If the reader is inclined to doubt the authenticity of certain events, viewing them as too implausible to be true, he may be assured that many things even more strange, which are possibly and even probably true, have been omitted because their accuracy could not be satisfactorily established. Nothing is included here that does not come from sources considered sound. Nothing is included that has not been subjected to every possible verification. — Robert D. Crassweller

I love you I love you I love you. Do you actually know I've only danced with you twice in eleven months? — J.D. Salinger

The great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the master of the things that try to enslave us. — Paulo Coelho

Any CEO who cannot clearly articulate the intangible assets of his brand and understand its connection to customers, is in trouble. — Charlotte Beers