Grobet Needle Quotes & Sayings

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless. — Herodotus

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going. — Bruce Forsyth

Working for Oprah is a dream come true. She was on my dream board for the longest time. — Tika Sumpter

Atlanta. I was forgetting more and more about my life in Chicago, and I prayed that it was forgetting about me. As — Jessica N. Watkins

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. — Mahatma Gandhi

In the apartment, the answering machine blinked fiercely, two gnats drag-raced around the apparently sweet, rotting hole of the kitchen drain, and life was difficult once again, and familiar, and a disappointment. — Meg Wolitzer

I'd rather suffer 1000 truths than enjoy 1 lie. — Bill Loguidice

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best. — Marilyn Monroe

In economy, invisible hand is a set of wealthy men.
It's the puppeteer who's in charge behind the curtain. — Toba Beta

Nobody is all good or all bad. — Ashley Madekwe

The Tower of Babel" ...
The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of Paris, wish to protest, in the name of our national good taste, against such an erection in the very heart of our city, as the monstrous and useless Eiffel Tower, already christened ... " The Tower of Babel" ...
How much longer is the City of Paris to be a play-ground for these barbarous and sordid imaginations which disfigure and dishonor her? For the Eiffel Tower, which even commercially minded America rejected, is a public dishonor to our city. All our historic buildings, our monuments of rare and appealing beauty, are dwarfed and humiliated by this monstrous apotheosis of the factory chimney whose odious shadow will lie over the city ...
Plea to the Exposition Director in opposition to the Eiffel Tower, signed by artists and writers and published in Le Temps, 1887 — Carol McCleary

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle.

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. — Virginia Woolf

Can writing ever be taught? The best answer to that was given obliquely by the rock musician David Lee Roth. When asked if money could buy happiness he said, no, but with money you could buy the big boat and go right up to where the people were happy. With a teacher you can go right up to where the writing is done; the leap is made alone with vision, subject, passion, and instinct. So a writer comes to the page with vision in her heart and craft in her hands and a sense of what a story might be in her head. How do the three come together? My thesis is the old one: they merge in the physical writing - inside the act of writing, not from the outside. The process is the teacher. — Ron Carlson

People are most important. — Lech Walesa