Mitacs Globalink Quotes & Sayings

I'm Carter Kane-part-time high school freshman, part-time magician, full-time worrier about all the Egyptian gods and monsters who are constantly trying to kill me.
Okay, that last part is an exaggeration. Not all the gods want me dead. Just a lot of them. — Rick Riordan

Trade and wealth creation is not all upside. It is failure, too.
Failure is a necessary component to growth and success. Babe Ruth
struck out 1,330 times but also hit 714 home runs. We need to let
failing entities fail. Only then will successful people turn these enterprises
back into wealth-creating vehicles again. "Too big to fail" is a
concept that perpetuates failure and saps vitality from the rest of the
wealth creators to do so. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling. — Robert Charles Wilson

I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day. — Max Schneider

One thing that everybody told me about directing was, 'Never compromise'. And the whole job is a compromise. So it's very paradoxical. How do you not compromise when the whole thing is about compromise? — Matt Dillon

Always set your mind to think thoughts of victory even before the battle begins, this way you will experience limitless possibilities. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world. — Julia Butterfly Hill

Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one. — Vernon Lee

One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell. — Sarah Waters

He looked like something more than human, or something less. — Edward Lee

I only like sports that Bond villains played. — Craig Ferguson