Ilmari Kianto Quotes & Sayings

I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. — George W. Bush

Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers. — Eric Ries

CUSTOMER: You know how they say that if you gave a thousand monkeys typewriters, then they'd eventually churn out really good writing? BOOKSELLER: ... yes. CUSTOMER: Well, do you have any books by those monkeys? BOOKSELLER: ... — Jen Campbell

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on ... — Edgar Wright

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does. — Brian Selznick

We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic - a moral code independent of religion - strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities? — Will Durant

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth. The war, the internal measures against counterrevolution, and the famine (which had created a bureaucratic rationing apparatus) had killed off Soviet democracy. How could it revive, and when? The Party lived in the certain knowledge that the slightest relaxation of its authority would give day to reaction. — Victor Serge

prayer of the day in gratitude to God's grand wisdom Jan. 24, 2014

skin
muscles
veins
osseous layers
marrow
all this passes
life mass to ash to dust,
thus, we must always
trust-rest in earth's
faithful arms,
hold to the night sky's Polaris
and all this within
knowing
God is Just
always
— Annette Schrab Clark

We all have our crosses to bear. — Dennis Lehane

He had melted away, and she felt his absence like a space cut from the air. — Laini Taylor