Johanna Michaelsen Quotes & Sayings

I'm a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so I'm never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer. — Frank Abagnale

I've used Twitter now and again to try to figure something out; it's an amazing resource. But I think you have to use it judiciously: it's a self-selected group, so it's important not to start thinking of it as the whole world. — Susan Orlean

I believed in my heart that despite politics, the United States would always do the right thing. My mind believed different, so I had made it sit quietly in the corner. — Patrick Thomas

Finding something spherical in space indicates that you have found a place where gravity has taken over. — Mike Brown

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself. — Heinrich Heine

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. — Don DeLillo

Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right. — George Steiner

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort. — Peter McWilliams

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf

In China we say, "You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane are as sweet." Sometimes love can be ugly. But one still has to take it and swallow it. — Xiaolu Guo

I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about. — Conor Oberst

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that. — Don Nelson