Shahmen Quotes & Sayings

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one. — Robert Byrne

Attracting loyal customers based on price is like believing in the tooth fairy. — Colin Myles

One paper published by a Duke University researcher in 2006 found that more than 40 percent of the actions people performed each day weren't actual decisions, but habits. — Charles Duhigg

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy. — Mignon McLaughlin

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day. — George Eliot

On Ove's side of the track it's empty but for three overdimensioned municipal employees in their midthirties in workmen's trousers and hard hats, standing in a ring and staring down into a hole. Around them is a carelessly erected loop of cordon tape. One of them has a mug of coffee from 7-Eleven; another is eating a banana; the third is trying to poke his cell phone without removing his gloves. It's not going so well. And the hole stays where it is. And still we're surprised when the whole world comes crashing down in a financial crisis, Ove thinks. When people do little more than standing around eating bananas and looking into holes in the ground all day. — Fredrik Backman

Different isn't good or bad. It isn't a qualifier. It just is. — Jodi Carmichael

You're trying to figure out a way to meet a horse to where he can understand. And to me, it's not to train a horse, it's to try to get the horse with you where it's one mind and one body. You may spend your whole life chasing that, but it's a good thing to chase. — Buck Brannaman

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive. — David DuChemin

I certainly never saw myself as posh. — Laura Carmichael

Anything new is always considered the devil's tool. — Rip Torn

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist. — Ron Fournier

C being what it is lacks support for multiple return values, so the notion that it is meaningful to pass pointers to memory objects into which any random function may write random values without having a clue where they point, has not been debunked as the sheer idiocy it really is. — Erik Naggum

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small ... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades. — Tom Wigley

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions. — Beeban Kidron