Nottage Joinery Quotes & Sayings

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do. — Bob McNair

I brought my face inches away from hers and whispered, 'If I were strapped like that, I would hate it, too.' And then I felt foolish, for what was the point of empathizing without taking more positive action? I wanted to touch her again but I left and returned to my room feeling impoverished and weak. — Shani Mootoo

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. — J.D. Salinger

The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized elite groups. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional. — Joan Rivers

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position. — John Loeffler

With an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy. — William Golding

At the opera, the music makes no sense; here in the street it has just the right demented touch to give it poignancy. — Henry Miller

In my opinion what distinguishes the Bible from the other books is its sense of time. Its first concern is to establish a calendar. Then it traces a genealogy. It imposes rhythms, it orders, it operates, it does not abandon the earth where its destiny must be fulfilled and whose own destiny must be fulfilled by it. Its history will be that of men and not of idle gods. The whole spirit must become incarnate and explore the possible. — Adrienne Monnier

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. — Robert Sheckley