Horace Vandergelder Quotes & Sayings

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.' — Jimmy Cliff

I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Love is not a good thing, I've decided. It just makes you afraid you'll lose what you love, and then, because your fear makes a space for that to happen, it does. What's the point? — Helen Humphreys

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression. — Anna Deavere Smith

The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder. They have curiosity. 'Who, what, where, why, when, and how!' They never stop asking questions, and I never stop asking questions, just like a five year old. — Sylvia Earle

Incidentally, the long-held idea that spices were used to mask rotting food doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. The only people who could afford most spices were the ones least likely to have bad meat, and anyway spices were too valuable to be used as a mask. — Bill Bryson

I said I could and I would. And I did. — Nellie Bly

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns. — Fritjof Capra

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline. — Graham Greene

All is well in all of creation. There is nothing that needs to be fixed, nothing that needs to be changed, nothing that went wrong. It has just been an experience. — Geoffrey Hoppe

Don't let your excuses stand in the way of achieving your dreams — Joe Sacco

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed. — Sylvia Boorstein

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild ... — Charles Wesley

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier

Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as "name-calling", employing "glittering generalities", "plain folks" identifications, "card stacking", "bandwagon" devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many religious and political speeches, even in academic lectures, and this approach to propaganda analysis led to a kind of witch-hunt for propagandists. — Klaus H. Krippendorff