Obering And Wurth Quotes & Sayings

Congratulations," I said. "It's so wonderful to write a book." "I walked all the way here," she said. "I started at midnight. I would have gotten here sooner if I weren't so old." "Where do you live?" I said. "The Kit Carson Hotel," she said. "And I've written a book." Then she handed it proudly to me as if it were the most precious thing in the world. And it was. It was a loose-leaf notebook of the type that you find everywhere in America. There is no place that does not have them. There was a heavy label pasted on the cover and written in broad green crayon across the label was the title: GROWING FLOWERS BY CANDLELIGHT IN HOTEL ROOMS BY MRS. CHARLES FINE ADAMS — Richard Brautigan

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more. — Dan Fogelberg

Grandma calls it the Socratic Method. She considers it the highest pedagogical technique. I call it cornering a person. Instead of just telling you what I want you to know, I ambush you with questions. You try to escape, but you can't. You can run whichever way you like, but in the end you'll fall right into my trap. — Sophia Nikolaidou

Music is the soundtrack to my life. — James Hetfield

Aeduan didn't contradict her. She was what she was, and fighting one's nature only brought pain. Sometimes death too. — Susan Dennard

I think that so many of our abilities to do things depend on interaction with each other. — Amartya Sen

Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work. — Hermione Lee

I always cry at weddings, especially my own. — Humphrey Bogart

Come back here so that I may brain thee! — Jim Carrey

I personall do not believe in 'style'. Because of 'styles', people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law. — Bruce Lee

Sometime ... there should be outburst of words to avoid complication. — Upasana Banerjee

I'm not saying it's what I would have wanted. But don't you see? We fuck up our lives again and again and it's always our children who pick up the bill. We move on to new relationships, always starting over, always thinking we've got another chance to get it right, it's the kids from all these broken marriages who pay the price. They - my son, your daughters, all the millions like them - are carrying around wounds that are going to last a lifetime. It has to stop. — Tony Parsons

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.' — Jimmy Fallon

Nothing weighs more heavily on age than time. Nothing has more meaning ... Now time becomes, with a kind of ruthless honesty, what it has always been: life's most precious commodity. The only difference is that, finally, we know it. — Joan D. Chittister

Persuaded editors and publishers at a dozen leading — Doris Kearns Goodwin