Hermange Oliver Quotes & Sayings

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm 24. I think when I was 18, 19, I had a problem with it because I wanted to look older and more womanly. I look in the mirror and I don't feel or look 14 to myself, regardless of what other people think. I'm fine with it and it really doesn't matter what age I'm playing. — Alison Lohman

I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position. — Jack Welch

When you're writing for a TV show, what's great is that you always know what actor you're writing to. — Michael Brandt

Twenty-one-year-old Chris Reed was gunned down with four bullets, including one that "exploded and took out a big chunk "of his left thigh. He listened in terror as troopers debated in front of him whether to kill him or let him bleed to death. As they discussed this the troopers had fun jamming their rifle butts into his injuries and dumping lime onto his face and injured legs, until he fell unconscious. — Heather Ann Thompson

It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities. — Matthew Yglesias

I often wish I could just passively watch people without being expected to participate myself, like television. — M.E. Thomas

It had been a slow and painful business, discovering that the theory of love did not match the reality of life. It was like expecting to be able to write a symphony because you had once read a handbook of composition. — Julian Barnes

I think it's important in a democracy such as ours that we have multiple sources to get news and information and utilize the media only if we want to get a different opinion. — Donna Brazile

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals. — Linda Ronstadt

You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things. — Jack Vance