Scanlan International Quotes & Sayings

Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can. — Price Pritchett

They sang the words in unison, yet somehow created a web of sounds with their voices. It was like hearing a piece of fabric woven with all the colors of a rainbow. I did not know that such beauty could be formed by the human mouth. I had never heard harmony before. — Anita Diamant

Digital transformation represents a break with the past, having a high level of impact and complexity. — Pearl Zhu

The light of the October afternoon lay on an old high-roofed house which enclosed in its long expanse of brick and yellowish stone the breadth of a grassy court filled with the shadow and sound of limes. — Edith Wharton

When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life ... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit. — Chandra West

Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands. — Carolyn Custis James

My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd organize. — Alec Berg

The burden of the incommunicable. — Thomas De Quincey

A kick-ass heroine to inspire us all, mixed with a fabulous cast of secondary characters and a plot that just won't quit. Day has hit a home run. [on Eve of Darkness ] — Kathleen Lawless

I thought how true it was that the world was a delightful place if it were not for the people, and how more than true it was that people were not worth troubling about, and that wise men should set their affections upon nothing smaller than cities, heavenly or otherwise, and countrysides which are always heavenly. — Katherine Mansfield

I'd love to try my hand at something else. — Colin Firth

As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health. — Henry Ward Beecher

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves. — Eda J. LeShan

There was so much in the world to be had and not had. — Sue Monk Kidd