Interior Guide Quotes & Sayings

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin. — Seth Godin

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian. I've been an accountant, a banker and on occasion, a broker. I've been a beautician. A map. A psychic. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. The T.V. Guide. A movie reviewer. An angel. God. A nurse and a nursemaid. A psychiatrist and psychologist. Evangelist. For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How To Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a Ph.D. in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. But I do mind. — Terry McMillan

The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy. — Henry Hyde

I stuck my tongue out at her because I'm not all that mature and I still enjoy doing the things that cracked me up when I was ten. — Elle Casey

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed. — Tonya Sheridan

Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac. — Karen Marie Moning

When the basic problem is your ignorance, clever strategies for bypassing your ignorance lead to shooting yourself in the foot. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I wanted to carve the scars that he left me with on his skin. — Christine Brae

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. — Madonna Ciccone

Instead of being a single, downright, bluff piece of work of which no man need feel ashamed, our commonest deeds are set about with a fluttering and flickering of wings, a rising and falling of lights. — Virginia Woolf

Chefs become attracted to being able to get product and then clientele - those are the two things that attract you as a chef. — Michael Mina

People who have nothing to say, speak the loudest. — John Rzeznik

In the Java Sea in Indonesia, I have seen fishers going out in the morning, six of them going out and coming back with five pounds of fish. That is the end point, a pound of fish per person per day to sell for rice. That's where fisheries go if you let it happen. That's where it stabilizes. These people cannot feed their families. — Daniel Pauly

If you have five elements available use only four. If you have four elements use three. — Pablo Picasso