Shirts With Nana Quotes & Sayings

They really can't afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can't afford to do research for five customers who won't generate a lot of commissions. — Peter Cundill

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have. — Dan DeCarlo

The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth. — Ananda Coomaraswamy

Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow XI. Dusk — Charles Dickens

see where they ended and the paddocks and bungalows began. The sandy road was gone and the paddocks and bungalows the other side of it; there were no white dunes covered with reddish grass beyond them; there was nothing to mark which was beach and where was the sea. A heavy dew had fallen. The grass was blue. Big drops hung on the bushes and just did not fall; the silvery, fluffy toi-toi was limp on its long stalks, — Katherine Mansfield

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. — Brad Bird

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. — Joan Borysenko

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation. Civilization, like intelligence, may serve well, serve adequately, or fail to serve its adaptive function. When civilization fails to serve, it must disintegrate unless it is acted upon by unifying internal or external forces. — Octavia E. Butler

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me. — Amy Hoggart

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery. — Victor Hugo

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy. — Emil Cioran