Happy Birthday Letty Quotes & Sayings

Ideas have a shelf-life. Share yours, let others collaborate, and you'll get new ones. — Chris Brogan

Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it. — Richard Leakey

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway?
Can anyone die without even a little? — Mark Strand

In the fall of 2012 I did drop some weight, and then it all came back on and then some, just like the average person who deals with this goes through. — Tom Reed

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle. — Edmund Burke

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Integers are the fountainhead of all mathematics. — Hermann Minkowski

I don't care that people thought I was one way for my whole career because now that I am not attached to a team, I can have my own opinion, I can have my own voice. I can link myself to my own thought process rather than a generic message most teams try to get across. — Brian O'Driscoll

In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time ... and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much. — Douglas Coupland

I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth. — Tim Farrington

My work is purely autobiographical ... It is about myself and my surroundings. — Lucian Freud

I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again. — Joy Behar

Nike is the uniform for kids all over the world, and African design has been killed by Nike. Africans no longer want to wear their own designs. — M.I.A.