Muralist Rivera Quotes & Sayings

I'm very pleased to be offered the job. I would love to work here, and I think I have a lot of to contribute. But I was hoping for $60,000." (That number allows him to find something in the middle that could still make you happy.) Then sit there with your lips tightly zipped. There's a more-than-decent chance that the person will make a counteroffer. If he says, "I can do that," great. If he offers $53,000, give it one more try. Say, "Is there any chance you can do a bit better?" He may say he'll have to get back to you. Remind him you'd love the job and tough it out (a frozen margarita that night can help!). When he comes back with $55,000 the next day, it will all be worth it. And if they insist you name a number? Be both realistic but generous to yourself, and add that you're open to discussion. — Kate White

Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman. — Herb Ritts

I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence. — Leopold Stokowski

She wore a tan robe and headscarf, the clothes of a local... but didn't feel like a market regular. She moved slowly and gazed at everything with a child's wonder. Her eyes were large and clear, her hair as black as midnight. She had a warm smile on her pretty lips and was obviously murmuring 'hellos' and 'excuse mes' to people who really didn't care or want to talk. She walked with the grace of a cloud in the wind, like her body weighed nothing at all, and held her head high with easy dignity. Easy.
Aladdin felt his heart contract. He had never seen her- or anyone like her- before.
When the girl adjusted her scarf, she revealed an intricate diadem in her hair that had a ridiculously sized emerald in it.
'Ah, a rich girl, out for a day of shopping in the market without her servants. Living dangerously, playing hooky. — Liz Braswell

When the darkness rolls in, I'll be there through thick and thin. — Hilary Duff

He was protecting. He was saving. Yet he was killing. How could something so terrible be so beautiful at the same time? — Brandon Sanderson

I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me. — Newt Gingrich

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. — Joseph Jacobs

anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing. Ah, my. How the world still dearly loves a cage. — Colin Higgins

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA. — Phil Ochs

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

So love, when it has gone, taking time with it, leaves a memory of its weight. — Djuna Barnes

The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world. — J.R.R. Tolkien

It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to. — Jeremy Lin