San Jamar Quotes & Sayings

Success demands a high level of logistical and organizational competence. — George S. Patton

Successes are like milestones while excellence is a never-ending journey. — Majid Kazmi

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred yesterday. — Sam Harris

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine ... — Ernest Dowson

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack; it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool; it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled. — Orlando Bloom

There are a lot of people like me, people who need books the way they need air. — Richard Marek

Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You can work hard,
But if you don't work smarter
You 'll work hard for the rest of your life. — Unknown

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board. — Ray Bradbury

They asked me what I wanted to call my autobiography. I suggested: The Definitive Volume on the Finest Bloody Fast Bowler That Ever Drew Breath. — Fred Trueman

He worked on small canvases with a touch as light as a cobweb and coloring made of mirages. He lived there, at the bottom of the sea ... — Anais Nin

Oh that it were with me
As with the flower;
Blooming on its own tree
For butterfly and bee
Its summer morns:
That I might bloom mine hour
A rose in spite of thorns.
Oh that my work were done
As birds' that soar
Rejoicing in the sun:
That when my time is run
And daylight too,
I so might rest once more
Cool with refreshing dew. — Christina Rossetti

Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be. — Chris Rock

I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works. — Philip Kitcher

We have received unconfirmed reports out of our embassy in Amman in Jordan that two Indonesian nationals, or precisely two Indonesian reporters ... have been taken away by armed individuals, — Marty Natalegawa