Memos Samples Quotes & Sayings

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato. — Nathan Myhrvold

The only thing worse than the failure of this massive global development experiment, would be its success. — Wolfgang Sachs

Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman. — Craig Lancaster

I did a little theatre work after that and the following year I got another part in a television series. Then it was almost to the end of the year before I got more work. That was coming to terms with the reality of the vocation I had chosen. — Karl Urban

How I love Bangkok! It's so teeming with everything that should be forbidden. I'm not just talking about the sex trade. I also mean the ways of driving, the ways of putting up buildings, environmental management arrangements, the continual attention of con artists and snatch-thieves, and the quaint local custom of peeing in side-streets. — John Dolan

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely. — Bryan Fuller

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. — Victor Hugo

Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty ...
and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love. — Brennan Manning

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized. — Yaroslav Trofimov

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals. — Paul Weyrich

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself. — Deepak Chopra

He walked over to Isaac and grabbed him by the shoulders. "Dude, pillows don't break. Try something that breaks."
Isaac reached for a basketball trophy from the shelf above the bed and then held it over his head as if waiting for permission.
"Yes," Augustus said. "Yes!" The trophy smashed against the floor, the plastic basketball player's arm splintering off, still grasping its ball. Isaac stomped on the trophy.
"Yes!" Augustus said. "Get it!" And then back to me, "I've been looking for a way to tell my father that I actually sort of hate basketball, and I think we've found it. — John Green

If you have talented and motivated people, they should be encouraged to work alone when creativity or efficiency is the highest priority. — Adrian Furnham

Regret is a waste of time. — James Patterson