Haakenson Origin Quotes & Sayings

My wife was on a visit to her aunt's, and for a few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Street.
'Why,' said I, glancing up at my companion, 'that was surely the bell? Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?'
'Except yourself I have none,' he answered. 'I do not encourage visitors. — Arthur Conan Doyle

a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing! — Suzette Francis

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. — Mel Torme

Never wade through the pretty ripples
of perpetually flowing
rivers, until you have looked at their lovely waters,
and prayed to them,
and washed your hands in the pale enchanting water. — Hesiod

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod. — Bill Gates

The biggest single obstacle to success, happiness, performance, and productivity in any area of your life is contained in fears of all kinds. Fear is and always has been the greatest enemy of mankind. More personalities are undermined and destroyed by fear than by any other factor. More relationships are hurt by fear than anything else, however it is manifested. More psychosomatic illnesses are caused by fears than by any other single factor. The — Brian Tracy

Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense. — John Hodgman

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women. — Kimberly Elise

The only things I could do were English, drama and history. I loved them subjects, but I hated everything else. — Michael Socha

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. — Gore Vidal

A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys, but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home. — Charles Krauthammer

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all. — James A. Garfield

This is a sport where you get your ego checked on a regular basis, whether it's in the cage or it's at practice. — Carlos Condit

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has
been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed
there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. — Henry David Thoreau