Lembaran Quotes & Sayings

I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass. — Roger Federer

Nature did not make me willowy. — Dixy Lee Ray

He heard the swishing of her skirts as she approached. God above! Could she not leave well enough alone? 'There is another thing I wished to ask you,' she said as she sat across from him - sat down in his presence without so much as a by-your-leave. Now, *this* deserved a sharp word. He opened his mouth, but she beat him to it, leaning across the chiffonier to whisper, 'By any chance, did you consume five pounds of truffles last week?'
What in God's name? 'No.'
'I thought not.' She plucked off her eyeglasses, revealing eyes a startling shade of light blue. He abruptly forgot what he'd been about to say. She was polishing the lenses with her sleeve as she continued to speak. The words might as well have been gibberish.
Her eyes were the precise shade of the sky over his garden this past summer ...
She replaced the spectacles on her nose, the glare of her lenses masking the miracles behind them. — Meredith Duran

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life. — Richard Rogers

I'm a visual thinker, thrill seeker, and I'm easily distracted. I see everything I'm writing, and I think it naturally affects the pace of things. — Patrick Carman

Economic change is always accompanied by social change. No one can stop that. — Lisa Kleypas

In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy, a curiosity that was too sharp to be crushed immediately, a lack of order in his ideas, a weakening of his spiritual boundaries, which were promptly twisted, an excessive passion for running along forked roads and wearying of the path as soon as he had started on it, mental indigestion demanding varied dishes, quickly tiring of the foods he desired, digesting almost all, but badly, was his state. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

They're going to die eventually. We are born to die. — K.M. Shea

Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy. — Nate Silver

I found myself admiring them, wondering at the courage it took to run toward danger for the sake of other people. — Kiera Cass

I'm not some three-hundred-year-old pervert who kisses teenage girls, okay? I'm the same age as you. Born just like you. — Kelly Keaton

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution. — Reid Hoffman

Here's another analogy. Human beings bring only a handful of facial features to the blueprint of how we look - two eyes, two eyebrows, a nose, a mouth, a pair of cheekbones, and two ears, all pasted onto a somewhat ovular-to-round face. That particular blueprint doesn't often vary much, either. Interestingly enough, this is about the same number of essential storytelling parts and milestones that each and every story needs to showcase in order to be successful. Now, consider this: With only these eleven variables to work with, ask yourself how often you see two people who look exactly alike. In a crowd of ten thousand faces, you would be able to differentiate each and every one of them, other than a set of twins or two in attendance. Where we humans are concerned, the miracle of originality resides in the Creator, who applies an engineering-driven process - eleven variables - to an artistic outcome. Where art is concerned, there is something to be learned from that. — Larry Brooks

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in. — David Duchovny

Unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven. — Jeanette Winterson