Sissys Lompoc Quotes & Sayings

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all. — Henry David Thoreau

You gotta win. That's all it takes. — Kevin Durant

I'm in semi-retirement, but what am I going to retire to? I don't ride horses, I don't golf anymore. I shoot a game of pool every now and then. — Pat Morita

But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. — Patrick Stewart

The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing. — Mark Twain

I have a very warm feeling about Kickstarter 'cause I think it's the best of what we can be. It's people who actually help out our fellow artists. We actually kind of go into our pocket for something. It's very rare. — Joe Carnahan

The citizens of Buffalo, then a smallish lakeside town, embarked on a brief campaign, led by a local judge named Wilkeson, to clear their own eponymous riverway and so tempt the canal engineers to route the Erie Canal to a terminus nearby. Energetic lobbying, together with the clearance of the creek, evidently worked, for the engineers did eventually end their labors there, and the fact that more than a million people now still brave one of the country's cruelest climates (with roof-topping lake-effect snowfalls drowning the city each winter) to live in and around Buffalo is testimony to the wisdom of Judge Wilkeson and the city fathers of 1825 in doing all the persuading, as well as dredging and prettifying the banks of Buffalo Creek. — Simon Winchester

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence. — Dorothy Kilgallen

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness. — Amber Riley

We need to keep our eyes and ears open. — C.S. Lewis

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart ... Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share. — Sharon Salzberg

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap. — James Dyson

CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don't remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me laugh. Do you know which one I mean? — Jen Campbell

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.' — Rashida Jones

He was like the drug she knew she shouldn't take,but the drug that kept coming back to feed her addiction — Cecelia Ahern