October 27th Quotes & Sayings

It wallowed in its water-bed; it burrowed, heaved and swung;
It gnawed its way ahead with grunts and sighs;
Its bill of fare was rock and sand; the tailings were its dung;
It glared around with fierce electric eyes.
Full fifty buckets crammed its maw;
it bellowed out for more;
It looked like some great monster in the gloom. — Robert W. Service

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. — Martina Hingis

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.' — Carol Roth

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to? — Richelle Mead

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew up in a family of all black people. I knew I was black because I grew up in an all-white neighborhood. And my parents, as part of their protective mechanisms that they were going to give to us, made it very clear what we were. — Soledad O'Brien

Running should be saved for the times when you're being chased. — Simone Elkeles

Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us. — Leah Hager Cohen

I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely-George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I. — Joe Eszterhas

With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV. — Nancy Tellem

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. — Jewel

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. — Meryl Streep

now had a cure for all forms of cancer, which had eradicated the disease in a matter of weeks. — Ernest Cline

Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone. — Rex Stout

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies — Jeanette Winterson

In other words, when their loyalty to Judaism was removed from the calculation, the majority of the children agreed with the moral judgements that most modern humans would share. Joshua's action was a deed of barbaric genocide. But it all looks different from a religious point of view. And the difference starts early in life. It was religion that made the difference between children condemning genocide and condoning it. In — Richard Dawkins