Miritello Quotes & Sayings

Taking risks is not being suicidal. Otherwise, skydivers need serious help. — Maggie Stiefvater

A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth. — Ben Horowitz

There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals ... no problem. A missing duster? Crisis. — Richelle Mead

If one takes meaning into consideration, happiness might best be described as "a zest for life in all its complexity," as Sissela Bok writes in her book. To achieve it means to "attach our lives to something larger than ourselves." To be happy, one must do. It could be something as simple as teaching Sunday school or as grand as leading nonviolent protests. It could be as cerebral as seeking the cure for cancer or as physical as climbing mountains. It could be creating art. And it could be raising a child - my "best piece of poetrie," as Ben Jonson said in his elegy for his seven-year-old son. — Jennifer Senior

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby. — Gabrielle Zevin

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go. — Alice Walker

Wrap the turkey up in aluminum foil, my brother like to masturbate with baby oil. — Adam Sandler

You can't listen to what people say about you. If you do, you're never going to get anywhere in life. — Marcus Giles

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? — Tennessee Williams

What grasses the horses had left was heavy with dew, as if some passing god had scattered a bag of diamonds over the earth. — George R R Martin

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror. — Alison Hawthorne Deming