Gredelin Quotes & Sayings

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily. — David McCandless

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality. — Tariq Ramadan

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it. — Norman Fischer

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct. — Mark Twain

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism". — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

For days afterward, a series of magical thoughts flew through my mind. For instance, it seemed somehow surprising that the hours continued to pass in spite of what I knew. It was almost shocking that time did not, in fact, stop. — Karen Thompson Walker

When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot, makes it less fearful by containing it in a kind of game format. [from an interview with DeCurtis] — Don DeLillo

I've got two wonderful children - and two out of five isn't too bad. — Henny Youngman

Never forget that the circumstances of your life for tomorrow are molded by your mental conduct today. — Emmet Fox

To get where you want to be, you must first know where you are. — Deborah Day

We're meant to be together. So we'll make it work. — Abby McDonald

I'm happy without money. — Heath Ledger