Nifty 50 Quotes & Sayings

Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind. — James Sallis

Does being forty feel fabulous and foxy? Liz asked. — Curtis Sittenfeld

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. — Ivan Illich

Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand. — Howard Schultz

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money. — Edward Burns

Your dreams will never workout unless you do — Sukhdeep Singh

Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our separateness. — Londa Schiebinger

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As we all know, the objective and mission of the photojournalist is to show us the reality of the world. And in order to capture that reality, they go to dangerous and tragic places at the expense of their lives. I see them as the conscience of our humanity; they represent for me what is left of our humanity. — Alfredo Jaar

Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so human, that they almost frighten you, for it is impossible to believe that a soul is not there. — Theophile Gautier

If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long! — Brian Tracy

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years. — Steve Case

I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that. — Phil Morris

The real axis of social change is not horizontal, but vertical. We don't need a whole bunch of people gathering to think shallow thoughts together. What we need is for as many people as are ready to gather and think deep thoughts together. — Marianne Williamson