Great Leaders Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Don't go chasing after the grand theme, the idea, I told my students, as if it is separate from the story itself. The idea or ideas behind the story must come to you through the experience of the novel and not as something tacked onto it. — Azar Nafisi

James rolled his eyes. "That was way harder than it should have been." "That's what he said. — Eli Easton

I have 10 brothers and sisters. — Norbert Leo Butz

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society. — Barbara W. Tuchman

The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve. — Terence McKenna

It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts. — Antonio Gramsci

Out of the choked Devonian waters emerged sight and sound and the music that rolls invisible through the composer's brain. They are there still in the ooze along the tideline, though no one notices. The world is fixed, we say: fish in the sea, birds in the air. But in the mangrove swamps by the Niger, fish climb trees and ogle uneasy naturalists who try unsuccessfully to chase them back to the water. There are things still coming ashore. — Loren Eiseley

Intuition often sees where science is blind. — Marty Rubin

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little. — Jackie French Koller