Krippendorf Alpha Quotes & Sayings

I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences. — Gustave Flaubert

Sometimes change is necessary. Sometimes we recognize the need for it, but we don't know how to achieve it. We misread its nature. We think it is beyond us, failing to recognize that our inability to act is a problem of our own making. Change is the solution we require, but it is not a goal that is easily reached. Identifying and disposing of what is troubling to us requires caution and understanding. — Terry Brooks

Sometimes you had to make the animals perform. — Matthew Reilly

I always like to entertain, first of all, and if the readers take anything away from it that helps them with their own lives, well then, that is a bonus. — Cecelia Ahern

We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job. — Azim Premji

Merchant's Ware, the city most people thought of as the real city. Normally its narrow streets were crowded with stalls, and people from all over the Carpet. They'd each be trying to cheat one another in that open-and-aboveboard way known as doing business. — Terry Pratchett

Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring. — Brad Barkley

My body feels like it is asking to reproduce. — Shakira

In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men. — Emile M. Cioran

He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is he dancing alone or dancing with everyone in the room? Here's the secret: It doesn't matter. — David Levithan

You're only as happy as your least happy child,' is the best description of motherhood I have ever read. — Sarah Payne Stuart

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure. — Mike Stud