Pelly Quotes & Sayings

The thing with cancer is that you want to get it as early as you can. — Michael Douglas

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way. — Amy Lee

Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it? — Martha Beck

Some people really like to have an open car that lets them see everything. Of course, others want the squinty, protected feeling of something like the Chrysler 300. — Charles Pelly

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that. — Charles Pelly

He's just rather more lively than most fossils. — Tamora Pierce

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. — Edgar Friedenberg

Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards. — Terry Pratchett

Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future. — Charles Pelly

The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary. — Charles Pelly

Everybody has a soul." I turn to Pelly. "And that means you, too."
"I'm not so sure of that," he says. "What does it feel like?"
"Having a soul?" I look at Maxine, but she only shrugs. "I don't know," I tell Pelly. "I don't have anything to compare it to- you know, what not having a sould would feel like."
We fall into a kind of awkward silence. I don't know about the others, but I'm working on what a soul is and not coming up with a whole lot. I mean, I just always thought of it as me- what I feel like being me. But surely Pelly feels like himself, so that means he's got a soul right? But if that's not your soul, then what is?
It's weird and not something you really think about, is it? — Charles De Lint

Reece, the jerk, appeared unperturbed. He raised a big hand and waved. Hi, folks. My name is Reece Peterson. I'm a wolf from the Pelly River pack in the North West Territories. I work as an ice road trucker and in my spare time I like to camp, ski and, more recently, drive Teddy nuts. — Eve Langlais

Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar. — Charles Pelly

Books by Roald Dahl The BFG Boy: Tales of Childhood Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator Danny the Champion of the World Dirty Beasts The Enormous Crocodile Esio Trot Fantastic Mr. Fox George's Marvelous Medicine The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Going Solo James and the Giant Peach The Magic Finger Matilda The Minpins The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes Skin and Other Stories The Twits The Umbrella Man and Other Stories The Vicar of Nibbleswicke The Witches The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More — Roald Dahl

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me. — Roald Dahl

I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan before he ever had a song out. You just knew he was pure talent and he was going to be successful. Gordon has written and recorded some of the greatest music ever. — Ronnie Hawkins

Auto designers usually have to think in terms of the standard categories: SUV, sports car, etc. — Charles Pelly

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job. — Donald J. Trump

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection. — Socrates

Designers used to be kept behind veiled doors. Now they are often the faces of companies. — Charles Pelly

Do not be intimidated by a smart person. It is easier to debate a smart person than to argue with an idiot. — Randall Dale Adams

Gwen Cassidy needed a man.
Desperately.
Failing that, she'd settle for a cigarette. — Karen Marie Moning

Harmy is a class bowler and I think he's one of the main reasons why England have improved over the last 18 months. — Glenn McGrath