Haraldsons Quotes & Sayings

if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority.

Luke — Walter Jon Williams

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film. — Alessandro Nivola

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John Yoo, UC Berkeley Constitutional Lawyer, novelist, and public servant — Richard Theodor Kusiolek

There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure. — Frank Bruno

The cicadas buzzing, I can hear them through the window. Buzzing louder and louder. Just like the night I sat by the window in the dark, gasping for air, feeling the riddle wriggling in my chest, hearing the monster's heavy footsteps in my ears. And suddenly I know. What they do all those years living in the ground. The nymphs who are to become cicadas. Maybe they don't know it themselves, but they are writing their song. Collecting the notes in the dark earth. The song rising to the sky, this is how it is, this is how it always is. The song floating toward the sky comes from the underworld. — Lene Fogelberg

I wasn't stupid. I knew life wasn't like in the movies, where people struggled to get together, and the happy ever after with a beautiful sunset behind the kissing couple as the movie ended. From what I could, the kiss wasn't the end. The kiss was when things started to get complicated. Or when people got married. That seemed to be the really hard stuff - to make it last. — Lina Andersson

It don't cost money to ask. — John Steinbeck

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved. — Stephane Hessel

You have no idea of the things you do to me. That night, after Fez, I would have happily given you every bit of myself."
I link my fingers between the buttons on his shirt.
He leans back in. "Then why didn't you?"
"Because I don't want you to be the other guy. — Anna Bloom

What's the burn scale? — Rebecca Stead

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts

My audition song is, and has been since 1977, 'I Love a Piano.' — Bebe Neuwirth