Shandee Chernow Quotes & Sayings

The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar 'queen,' alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades. — Umberto Eco

Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed. — Robert Green Ingersoll

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. — Jostein Gaarder

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy. — Dyan Cannon

I'm sorry, I says.
Fer what? he says.
Fer always bein ... you know ... so-
Ungrateful? he says.
Yeah, I says.
Ornery?
I guess so.
Rude? Pig-headed? Violent?
I ain't violent!
Oh yes, you are. Very. But I like that in a woman.
I laugh. Yer crazy, I says.
I was fine till I met you, he says. — Moira Young

Success produces success, just as money produces money. — Diane Ackerman

Quantity and persistence will get you the outcomes you need. — James Altucher

Once we realize the extraordinary power we have to compose our lives, we'll move from passive, conditioned thinking to being co-creators of our fate. — Jason Silva

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds