Hoogaars Quotes & Sayings

This absence of intellectual mechanisms for questioning our own actions becomes clear when the expression of any unstructured doubt - for example, over the export of arms to potential enemies or the loss of shareholder power to managers or the loss of parliamentary power to the executive - is automatically categorized as naive or idealistic or bad for the economy or simply bad for jobs. And should we attempt to use sensible words to deal with these problems, they will be caught up immediately in the structures of the official arguments which accompany the official modern ideologies - arguments as sterile as the ideologies are irrelevant. — John Ralston Saul

I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight. — James Ellroy

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often. — Meg Ryan

One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can. — Toni Sorenson

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something. — Callan McAuliffe

The lord has already provided everything that we need and all the necessary conditions needed to help us to succeed — Sunday Adelaja

When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly. — Landon Donovan

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. — Richard Dawkins

My mother's advertising firm specialized in women's accessories. All day long, under the agitated and slightly vicious eye of Mathilde, she supervised photo shoots where crystal earrings glistened on drifts of fake holiday snow, and crocodile handbags-unattended, in the back seats of deserted limousines-glowed in coronas of celestial light. She was good at what she did; she preferred working behind the camera rather than in front of it; and I knew she got a kick out of seeing her work on subway posters and on billboards in Times Square. But despite the gloss and sparkle of the job (champagne breakfasts, gift bags from Bergdorf's) the hours were long and there was a hollowness at the heart of it that-I knew-made her sad. — Donna Tartt

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark. — Tamora Pierce

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. — Dominic Cooper

The heroes of life are so much better than the heroes of romance," said Caroline. — Anthony Trollope