Jeannette Walls Book Quotes & Sayings

Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never take actions that could make their dream a reality — Tony Robbins

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people. — Colin Angle

Familiar things are a comfort to us all. — Andy Rooney

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. — Jeannette Walls

Sometimes you meet someone, and even though you never liked brown eyes before, their eyes are your new favourite colour. — Anonymous

In the end, that's what most vacations are. Just you eating in a place you've never been. Why don't we eat something, then we'll go get something to eat? Then we should see that thing we're supposed to see; they probably have a snack bar, so we can get something to eat. But after that, we definitely gotta go out and get something to eat. — Jim Gaffigan

Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face. — C. JoyBell C.

We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves. — Ivy Pochoda

Holiness on earth is a spiritual fantasy. — Toba Beta

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us. — Erich Maria Remarque

His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room. — Jonathan Larson

At the same time, Dad was working on a book arguing the case for phonetic spelling. He called it 'A Ghoti out of Water.' "Ghoti," he liked to point out, could be pronounced like "fish." The "gh" had the "f" sound in "enough," the "o" had the short "i" sound in "women," and "ti" had the "sh" sound in "nation. — Jeannette Walls

At last the armies clashed at one strategic point, They slammed their shields together, pike scraped pike With the grappling strength of fighters armed in bronze And their round shields pounded, boss on welded boss, And the sound of struggle roared and rocked the earth. The Iliad, Book 4 — Rick Atkinson

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way. — Jeannette Walls

If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel. — Napoleon Hill

I watched as that dark blob walked out into traffic, then was violently struck by a car. Yup, that's me. I was somewhat proud of humanity when I saw that a few people immediately came over to me to see if I was okay, rather than stealing my wallet or completely ignoring me. — Dennis Liggio

Don't expect people to remember what we have done for them, but remember what people did for us. — LJ

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame. — Mickey Rourke