Puttered Around Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Alone, we are alive. — Anneli Rufus

I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy. — Hugh Jackman

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett

When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman. — Ian Anderson

Have you ever been surfing? Imagine you're on your surfboard now, waiting for the big one to come. Get ready to get carried with that energy. Now, here it comes. That's empathy. No words - just being with that energy. When I connect with what's alive in another person, I have feelings similar to when I'm surfing. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

We can be competitive and aim to destroy our opponent or competition, but we can still respect our rivals and even be friends. — Ben Tolosa

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil. — John Dryden

The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape. — Kahlil Gibran

If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it. — Les Brown

A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Milan Kundera

I'll read anything since I'm something of a book slut. — Nick Pageant

A few modern philosophers ... assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism. ... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before. — Carol S. Dweck

I want to understand more about the world while I'm still here. — Jostein Gaarder