Quebec Conference Quotes & Sayings

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded. — Beck

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive. — Fannie Flagg

It wasn't the country, the girl, the teacher who let us down; it was our judgment, and whatever led us to expect too much of the country, the girl or the teacher in the first place. That was why it became harder and harder to condemn anyone: wouldn't God himself, faced with a wounded murderer, feel somewhat at a loss? — Pico Iyer

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better. — John Patrick Shanley

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves. — David Lloyd George

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it. — Jane Smiley

The government's beating us down, and it all begins with those goddamn lines in the parking lot. Set yourself free, my brother. If you see a line, ignore it. — Debra Anastasia

A good Coach asks great questions to help you remove the obstacles in your mind and to get you back on track in life — Farshad Asl

How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and oppression to serve their own ends. — Christina Engela

The History of Evolution is the real source of light in the investigation of organic bodies. It is applicable at every step, and all our ideas of the correlation of organic bodies will be swayed by our knowledge of the history of evolution. To carry the proof of it into all branches of research would be an almost endless task. (1828) — Karl Ernst Von Baer

To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency. — Jay Parini