Grubowarg Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience). — James Schuyler

For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams. — Sophocles

A woman without a man
a condition of 'manlessness'
is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife. — Barbara Kingsolver

I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large. — Edwin Moses

When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold. — John Paul Stevens

Give me someone I can look up to, show me someone I can love. — John Mellencamp

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it. — Barton Gellman

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit. — Chris Gardner

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women. — Ellen Page

rogrammers have "theories" about how software will behave when they change a line of code. Those theories rarely hold up to their first encounter with reality. Unsuccessful programmers could probably wax eloquent about how things should be different. Successful programmers just debug their code. Such a profession would quickly wean a person from idealistic notions about how to make a change. Successful programmers soon learn that it is more profitable to challenge their own thinking than to curse their computers when faced with unexpected results. There is no reason that communities could not formulate policy in a similar way. Two reasons that it is not is because of our still rudimentary understanding of system dynamics and our insistence on placing blame on individuals rather than trying to understand systems. — Ron Davison