Parvenir Quotes & Sayings

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk. — Heath Ledger

You don't get to choose who turns you into a maniac.
They just do, and you're just fucked, and the rest is just damage control. — Julio Alexi Genao

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard De Bury

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees. — Henry Adams

I didn't even know what a horror film was. I kind of made it up as I went along. — Wes Craven

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. — Terrell Owens

At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college. — Brian Henson

It's more important to hire people with the right qualities than with specific experience. — J. Willard Marriott

When you get a jean for a larger girl, you have to have them tailored for you. Tailoring is indeed everything. — Jill Scott

Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something you visit at 2 A.M. on a website. — Douglas Coupland

Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team. — John Starks

Collective impact (fig. 3.8) operates on the premise that much of conservation and donor funding has fallen short of meeting its goals of significant societal transformation because decision and implementation programs are too fractured and diffuse, generating competition among players rather than collaboration in what is often a zero-sum game. — Charles G. Curtin

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life. — Lindsay Lohan

You can stay young as long as you learn. — Emily Dickinson