Jackalyn Selleck Quotes & Sayings

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation. — Andrew O'Hagan

In the dark times will there be singing?
Yes. There will be singing about the dark times. — Bertolt Brecht

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers. — Clayton Christensen

You don't just fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. — Lance Armstrong

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her. — Cristobal Balenciaga

I die and go to a library? Sure, it could be worse, but I've spent a lot of time in libraries this year. Quite enough time, really. Do I have to stay forever? Where do I go pee? — Brent Weeks

It turned out that Evgeny Evgenievich indeed had a clever plan how to convert me to math. As soon as I came to his office, he asked me, "So, I hear you like quantum physics. Have you heard about Gell-Mann's eightfold way and the quark model?" "Yes, I've read about this in several popular books." "But do you know what was the basis for this model? How did he come up with these ideas?" "Well ... " "Have you heard about the group SU(3)?" "SU what?" "How can you possibly understand the quark model if you don't know what the group SU(3) is? — Edward Frenkel

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong. — Michael Phelps

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. — Fernando Pessoa

Feeling that the simplest of tasks requires a Herculean effort. Being riddled with guilt because you have no reason to feel like this when there are so many people in the world who are really suffering. — Paulo Coelho

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read. — Christopher Hampton

The thing I love about Vegas is that it's a melting pot. It's like working Ellis Island. — Don Rickles