Quotes & Sayings About Guest Speakers

To have abundance, appreciate what you have with great love and share your possessions with joy. — Debasish Mridha

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger. — Trent Reznor

Remember the people in the back streets of Derby. — Arthur Christiansen

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy. — Josephine Hart

I'm interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real intimacy with my poems. Whether I do that through pulling from my personal life or using my fantasy life - or say history, whether that history is personal history or our collective histories - what's important is that an experience is created. An experience that will hopefully matter to people and feel real. I want my poems to move people and make them want to live their lives, however complicated and impossible those lives may be. I think a poem can speak to the life you currently live but also to the lives you've lived before, the ones to come and also those you've yet to imagine. What else can do that? Not sex or money or other people. — Alex Dimitrov

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. — Napoleon Bonaparte

In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger. — Dave Barry

You don't ever lose your dream. You don't give that up. I tell that to the players. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything to live for. — Bill Barber

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. — Gertrude Stein

Makebelieve is a writer's best friend. — Solange Nicole

Apathy. Pretending to be happy, pretending to be sad, pretending to have an orgasm, pretending to be having fun, pretending that you've slept well, pretending that you're alive. Until there comes a point where you reach an imaginary red line and realize that if you cross it, there will be no turning back. Then you stop complaining, because complaining means that you are at least still battling something. You accept the vegetative state and try to conceal it from everyone. And that's hard work. — Paulo Coelho

Isn't every hero aware of all the terrible reason they did those good deeds? Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don't they recall the moments they weren't heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could? — Holly Black

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act. — Charles Eames

Sometimes pain can be sweet if we let it. It can remind us of all the good things. Just because something bad happened, it shouldn't erase the sweetness that came before it. — Lexi Blake

To generate any appreciable degree of long-term affluence requires scrupulous honesty and the willingness to honor long-term agreements with employers, suppliers, partners, and especially customers. The flimflam artist may generate a few quick bucks through fraud or misrepresentation, but no successful and lasting business enterprise was ever founded on such principles. — Robert Sheaffer