Kick Off Meeting Quotes & Sayings

Shiroyama's heart stops. The earth's pulse beats against his ear.
An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ...
... a black butterfly lands on the white stone, and unfolds its wings. — David Mitchell

Instead, my mother suggested I write notes to my friend-turned-archenemy, Carrie. "Jot your feelings down on paper. Tell her how you're feeling," she said, with the PS: "Don't send the letters. Don't give them to her. Keep them to yourself. But once you get your feelings down on paper, you'll be able to move on. You'll be able to think through your emotions. You'll find closure. — Mary Kubica

My Obama is getting pretty good ... I think I'll vote for whoever makes my portrayal easier. It takes time to put together a comic impression. It takes time to recognize the tics. Right now, for instance, I could do a dead- on Paul Ryan and people wouldn't recognize it. Personalities take a while to sin ... — Dana Carvey

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now. — Angela Merkel

We get very set in our ways and it's sometimes hard to look beyond what else is out there. — Emilio Estevez

Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying. — Robert Jackson Bennett

Learn to see past the flaws and you will understand the perfection of the Universe. — Ka Chinery

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need? — Bobby Jindal

In a 2011 TED Talk in San Francisco, author and speaker Mel Robbins talked about how the chances that you are you are about 1 in 400 trillion. (Yes, that's a four hundred followed by twelve zeros.) This takes into account the chance of your parents meeting out of all the people on the planet, the chance of them reproducing, the chance of you being born at the exact moment that you were, and every other wildly improbable factor that goes into each individual person. The whole point of her crazy calculation was that we should take the sheer improbability of our own existence as a kick in the butt to get out of bed in the morning. — Sophia Amoruso

As a submissive needed the security of a dominant's arms, the dominant needed to provide it. — Cherise Sinclair

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom

I don't care much for diamonds,' Nicola had told him.
'Have you ever been offered any?' he had asked, and he had been making fun of her, his face mocking.
'Not that I can remember,' Nicola had admitted calmly.
'And how would an offer be received?' he had asked, as though he knew the answer.
'With a kick in the teeth,' Nicola had said, meeting his eye. — Charlotte Lamb

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm not playing daddy. I am Daddy and you are Mommy. Shouldn't we be making out instead of fighting? — Toni Aleo

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could. — Geri Halliwell