Shahiemmiller Quotes & Sayings

Memory doesn't erase. The recall ability fails. — James Cook

The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude. — Harrison Birtwistle

Dan is my ordinary friend. Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name. — Pete Hautman

Nothing happened in the sixties except that we all dressed up. — John Lennon

Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority. — Rick Perlstein

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. — Epictetus

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends — Willie Pep

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now. — Aaron Levie

Unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf, — Mary Balogh

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element. — Andrew Marvell

Life is a gift, however long it lasts. It's God's to give and take away as He sees fit. We go through life thinking we're entitled to our ninety, but we're not entitled to anything. All we can do is trust that He knows what He's doing. That He has a plan for all of us, and that no pain He allows in our life will go unused. — Denise Hunter

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted. — Allyson Felix

When we reach out to pluck a flower the stem trembles, seeming both to shrink and to offer itself. The human body has something of this tremor at the moment when the mysterious hand of death reaches out to pluck a soul. — Victor Hugo

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. — Mohamed El-Erian