Retrospectators Quotes & Sayings

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I like to use two basic elements for my clothing: rock ... you know, metal and chains and stuff - mixed with fairies and drama and Victorian clothing - fantasy. — Evanescence

Because she is already a doer who, I am certain, is fully capable of making all her dreams come true.
Well, maybe not all> my dreams, I thought, smiling to Ian, who was smiling back. But most. Which was fine, since I'd learned that getting most of what you wish for in life is often as good as getting it all. — Sarah Strohmeyer

Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs. — Michael Chabon

Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage. — Sam Walton

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. — Virginia Woolf

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. — Jane Austen