Perigold Quotes & Sayings

Washington D.C.! Congress is full of self-declared outsiders. — Aleksandar Hemon

It's very difficult to think that you're with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don't know them: it turns out that they betray you. It's painful, but it's best to turn the page. — Shakira

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar. — Emma Stone

Think outside the square. Think for yourself don't just follow the herd. Think multidisciplinary! Problems by definition, cross many academic disciplines. — Lucas Remmerswaal

Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories - so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with. — Ford Madox Ford

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live. — Malala Yousafzai

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life. — Arthur Hailey

Over the years, I've worried that my directness could come off as brusque or my criticisms heard in an outsize way, especially by male colleagues. I sometimes wondered whether expressing even my mildest reservation reminded someone of a chastising mother or complaining wife. — Jill Abramson

Astronomy is the science of the harmony of infinite expanse. — John Scott Russell

You may sell your work, but not your soul. — John Ruskin

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. — Plutarch

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains. — Horace Greeley