Greg Koch Stone Quotes & Sayings

At a small dinner with other business executives, the guest of honor spoke the entire time without taking a breath. This meant that the only way to ask a question or make an observation was to interrupt. Three or four men jumped in, and the guest politely answered their questions before resuming his lecture. At one point, I tried to add something to the conversation and he barked, "Let me finish! You people are not good at listening!" Eventually, a few more men interjected and he allowed it. Then the only other female executive at the dinner decided to speak up
and he did it again! He chastised her for interrupting. After the meal, one of the male CEOs pulled me aside to say that he had noticed that only the women had been silenced. He told me he empathized, because as a Hispanic, he has been treated like this many times. — Sheryl Sandberg

To live without evil belongs only to the gods. — Sophocles

I grew up in New York, I love New York. — Caroline Kennedy

Infinite speech is that mode of discourse that consistently reminds us of the unspeakability of nature. It bears no claim to truth, originating from nothing but the genius of the speaker. Infinite speech is therefore no about anything; it is always to someone. It is not command, but address. It belongs entirely to the speakable. — James P. Carse

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge. — Toba Beta

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print. — Chuck Close

Insanity makes the rivers flow. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Experiences are the gifts from God, but we never seek those directly. You and I are to be seeking. You and I are to be hungering and thirsting after righteousness and then the experiences are the gifts. — Brian Richardson

Most people who came here came for economic reasons or sometimes for religious or political reasons. I didn't have any of this. I came here, I liked it, I stayed. So I'm a pure American - even more than people who are born here - because I did it by choice as an adult. — Jacques Pepin

she freely admitted that of old she had been a little mad, and now she pretended to be perfectly sane. — Henry James

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom. — Linda Fiorentino