Shribman Quotes & Sayings

Hold in, hold in, one crack and the wall is breached. I need now to be finite, self-contained, to stop this bacterial grief dividing and multiplying till its weight is the weight of the world. Bacteria: agents of putrefaction. My father's decay lodged in me. — Jeanette Winterson

It's easy to say, 'I'm going to build something that already exists,' but it's difficult to clearly and succinctly describe something new. — Sam Altman

But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open. — Genevieve Gorder

You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because Lord Voldemort - who is the last remaining descendant of Salazar Slytherin - can speak Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred some of his own powers to you the night he gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do, I'm sure. . . ." "Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said, thunderstruck. "It certainly seems so. — J.K. Rowling

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? — Jack Welch

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — Barack Obama

No challenges like producing effective people — Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh

No, no. You shall make no such confession, Stephen. I am sure that if he is still alive now, if Father Joseph rejoices, he is also full of terror. He is a man, Stephen, just as you are. Listen, he told me some years ago that he reads St. John's account of Gethsemane every day. It reminds him that our Lord himself desired not to suffer, not even for his Father's will. Never deny your own humanity, lest you deny the same humanity of our Lord." He saw that Stephen struggled with this admonition. "Hold your fear close to your heart, even cherish it, for that is where you share our Savior's Cross - not in his divinity, but in his humanity, in his Gethsemane." He was relieved to learn that the young man was no zealot, that he had the good sense to be frightened - it would make him cautious. — Dena Hunt

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant. — George Washington

Men and women are created differently, equal in value, but different. — Laura C. Schlessinger

I know I'm gonna die so my revenge is living well. — Robbie Williams

The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet. — Lavinia Greenlaw

A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain. — Rumi

A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. — Plato