Jerrad Ragsdell Quotes & Sayings

Grateful people learn to celebrate even amid life's hard and harrowing memories because they know that pruning is no mere punishment, but preparation. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn't afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He'd taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping - complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. — Diana Rowland

An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem regarded as the most Jewish writing in the German language. The Anti-Journalist is the best book I have seen on this engaging topic. — Istvan Deak

You may follow the footsteps
The whole day will pass
With you going around in circles
Yet not reaching anywhere at last! — Avijeet Das

If you can't worship at the back, you can't worship at the front — Mike Pilavachi

The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems.
However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on. — David Filo

I believe in all that has never yet been spoken. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself. — Nelson Mandela

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers. — Lee Iacocca

The wind is tossing the lilacs,
The new leaves laugh in the sun,
And the petals fall on the orchard wall,
But for me the spring is done.
Beneath the apple blossoms
I go a wintry way,
For love that smiled in April
Is false to me in May. — Sara Teasdale

When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection. — Madonna Ciccone

What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else. — Leonard Nimoy

America rules the world - by force. — Harry Browne

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves. — David Eagleman

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny. — Ted Ligety