Mainella Sarasota Quotes & Sayings

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms. — Marilynne Robinson

I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind. — Wangechi Mutu

Today's businesses can't just use social media; they have to become social businesses, inside and out and from top to bottom. Ultimately, that is the goal of this book: to harness the power of being a social business to become the most highly recommended organization in your industry/category/niche. — Paul M. Rand

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares. — Woody Allen

There is no dignity in a crying toothpick. — Obert Skye

I panic as suicides do when they realize their folly. — Pierce Brown

I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character. — Steve Carell

Oh, I'm a big-mouth. I said a lot of things. — Sean Penn

If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. — Ted Nugent

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm. — Garry Wills

Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium. — Al Davis

He loved her.
He wanted her.
He needed her.
And he needed her now. — Julia Quinn

There are none so impoverished as those who do not acknowledge the abundance of their lives — Richard Paul Evans

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing. — Henry Rollins