Piesman Trophy Quotes & Sayings

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos. — Stanislaw Lem

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle? — Alan Shepard

I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore. — Christian Schwochow

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok? — John Burdett

I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can. — Hannah Marks

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. — Louis Kronenberger

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people. — Gwen Stefani

The single window had once provided a view of the Columbus skyline, but I'd spray-painted it completely black a few days after I moved in. I'd decided that everything outside the window was a distraction from my quest, — Ernest Cline

Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context. — Richard Pascale

A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. — Erma Bombeck

I do believe in standing up for what you believe in and your family and your friends. — Kid Rock

I can say I didn't win, but I can't say that I didn't try. — Maribel C. Pagan

It's not like we're all animalistic people trying to become more spiritual. We're really living spirit, trying to find out how to live embodied in this nitty gritty world, these corporeal forms, in these fleeting bodies in the material world where everything's changing and we're not in control. — Surya Das

Ahh, women! I never met one yet that was half as reliable as a horse! — John Wayne

Oh gods, Jane, the answer to all those questions is you. You turn me on; you're what I want; you make me growl. — Nicole Peeler