Kercheville Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Just as there was a day every spring when the women of the town, as though by some secret signal, appeared in their summer dresses before the first heat was felt, there was as well a day when winter showed the knife before the first laceration. — Robert Goolrick

When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor. — Queen Latifah

If you always use your stapler in one place, keep it there, instead of thinking that all the office supplies should go in one place. I've moved a lot of things around in my house because of that. — Gretchen Rubin

do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. — Charles Bukowski

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word. — Harold Pinter

The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people. — John C. Maxwell

Iacocca made his pitch: He wanted Ford to build the Fiesta, but with a Honda engine and transmission in it. Honda was delighted: He would like nothing better than this joint production with an American company, whose very name he revered. The price of the Japanese parts would be only $711. He could deliver 300,000 and do it quickly. Iacocca was even more delighted; he had an instant car and an unbeatable one at that. It could be in the dealers' showrooms in only eighteen months. — David Halberstam

From December 2007 through June 2009, average federal employee salaries increased by 6.6 percent, while average private-sector salaries increased by 3.9 percent. — Jason Chaffetz

For me, relationships are the real action movies. Bombs are exploding every day and the kitchen is Ground Zero. — Michelle Williams

After she has gone back to sleep, after Etienne has blown out his candle, he kneels for a long time beside his bed. The bony figure of Death rides the streets below, stopping his mount now and then to peer into windows. Horns of fire on his head and smoke leaking from his nostrils and, in his skeletal hands, a list newly charged with addresses. Gazing first at the crew of officers unloading from their limousines into the chateau.
Then at the flowing rooms of the perfumer Claude Levitte.
Then at the dark tall house of Etienne LeBlanc.
Pass us by, Horseman. Pass this house by. — Anthony Doerr

The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision. — David Karp

Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker. — Marcus Buckingham

I couldn't deal with my ex and his new she-devil girlfriend being all up in my face and him trying to be friendly and her trying to poison me with her existence... — Sarah Billington