Progresso Quotes & Sayings

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored - it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. — Pearl S. Buck

I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?'

Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning possible conversation stoppers, but I didn't think that I would ever have the nerve to use one. But now, in the most awkward of situations, it seemed appropriate.

'Actually, I'm writing a biography,' I responded casually. 'About a man in Alaska who makes foie gras from penguins. — Phoebe Damrosch

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music. — Cristian Machado

A lot of times, I don't feel responsible for the songs myself. But that's my job or my place in life: to keep my search and catch the ideas before they pass me by. — Daron Malakian

It's the biggest moon I've seen in all my life, a moon glowing with lambent encouragement, a moon bigger than the earth itself. It's so large and so bright you can actually see the eyes and the nose and all the craters around them--it's a moon you could hunt anything under. Deer, or your own destiny. It's pregnant with triplet moons, or stuffed either icing, or perhaps dead and bloated with tiny feeding moon flies. — Jacinda Townsend

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world. — Patrick Soon-Shiong

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them. — Karen Traviss

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end ... — Angela Johnson

Persuasion occurs when trust and confidence meet belief, risk tolerance, and safety. — Jeffrey Gitomer

Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable. — Ed Rendell

Everything is possible, isn't it? The world soon teaches one that! — Agatha Christie

I've never shot a civilian except when under orders. — William T. Vollmann