Hestenes Silver Quotes & Sayings

As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising new ways for people to avoid talking to each other and I'd been taking full advantage of the most recent ones. I would always send a text message rather than speak to someone on the phone. Rather than meeting with any of my friends, I would post cheerful, ironically worded status updates on Facebook, to show them all what a busy life I was leading. And presumably people had been enjoying them, because I'd got more than seventy friends on Facebook now, most of them complete strangers. But actual, face-to-face, let's-meet-for-a-coffee-and-catch-up sort of contact? I seemed to have forgotten what that was all about. — Jonathan Coe

I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all. — Ethan Hawke

A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed. And so we've organized around this idea of compliance in all things - in school, in the foods we eat, in the way we respond to marketing. And it's a dead end. — Seth Godin

Fifteen birds in five firtrees,
their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze!
But, funny little birds, they had no wings!
O what shall we do with the funny little things?
Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot;
fry them, boil them and eat them hot? — J.R.R. Tolkien

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. — Jim Valvano

No matter how much you try, you cannot change the future. You cannot change. Not really. That's the problem with optimism, with hope. You end up disappointed. — Lexa Hillyer

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing. — Fred Durst

Remember, no developer has ever died from not meeting a deadline. — Moshfegh Hamedani

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them. — Victoria Woodhull

Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present. — Fergie

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will. — Oscar Wilde

I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there. — Kacey Musgraves