Ravenor Books Quotes & Sayings

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon? — Stephen Covey

Dancing is a feeling expressed from the inside out. — Mia Michaels

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.' — Erwin McManus

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting. — James Hong

I've always believed that a hoarder house is a house full of quitting. To make a change, the hoarder has to stop quitting and start trying. The hoarder has to want to change...

When hoarders quit, they are cheating their potential. Every time they quit, they are taking a shortcut and they know it. The guilt builds, which is why hoarders can't allow themselves to quit again, not even once. Quitting on small actions eventually leads to completely giving up. — Matt Paxton

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret. — J.R. Moehringer

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. — Dolly Parton

Triboplasts played a crucial role in evolution, precisely because they did have internal organs, and in particular they could ingest food and excrete it. Their excreta became a major resource for other creatures; to get an interestingly complicated world, it is vitally important that shit happens. — Terry Pratchett

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. — Adlai E. Stevenson

Rage is for little wrongs; despair is dumb. — Hannah More

I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess. — Diana Wynne Jones

Business before pleasure ... — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like ... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like ... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this. — Callie Khouri

I think that having been around computers all my life - my father had brought home personal computers at a very early age in the '70s - so being around computers from a very early age perhaps I had even subconsciously seen the exponential progression of what was happening with computers. — Barry Ptolemy