Mcverry Naugatuck Quotes & Sayings

When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats. — Charlie Melancon

Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to. — Robert Brault

Each of us should choose which course of action we must take; education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes, but let it not be said that we did nothing. — Ron Paul

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market. — Richard Branson

Most writers cannot afford focus groups or A/B testing, but they can ask a roommate or colleague or family member to read what they wrote and comment on it. Your reviewers needn't even be a representative sample of your intended audience. Often it's enough that they are not you. This does not mean you should implement every last suggestion they offer. Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn't comply. Good prose is never written by a committee. A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. — Steven Pinker

When people find out that I've written 208 novels, they ask, 'How did you think of all that?' Well, I answer, 'How do you not think of it?' I see a gum wrapper on the ground, and I think, 'Oh, a Russian spy probably dropped that.' I just think like that, and those thoughts go through my mind constantly. — Gilbert Morris

Make eye contact and small talk. — Timothy Snyder

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires. — Simone De Beauvoir

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance. — Wanda Sykes

With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own choices. You run the taxes, and you get the results. — Paul R. Ehrlich

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Let's not be too rough on our own ignorance, it's what makes America great. — Frank Zappa

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.' — Agnetha Faltskog