Sleights Berry Quotes & Sayings

I'll have you know Southern isn't a synonym for stupid. — Janice Lane Palko

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. — Gloria Swanson

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal. — Max Levchin

It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking. — Sarah Dessen

If you don't stop playing with that dress, I'm going to rip it right off of you, and we won't be heading for dinner. — Patricia Briggs

I have always regarded Paine as one of the greatest of all Americans. Never have we had a sounder intelligence in this republic ... It was my good fortune to encounter Thomas Paine's works in my boyhood ... it was, indeed, a revelation to me to read that great thinker's views on political and theological subjects. Paine educated me, then, about many matters of which I had never before thought. I remember, very vividly, the flash of enlightenment that shone from Paine's writings, and I recall thinking, at that time, 'What a pity these works are not today the schoolbooks for all children!' My interest in Paine was not satisfied by my first reading of his works. I went back to them time and again, just as I have done since my boyhood days. — Thomas A. Edison

I hate women like that. They're so desperate for the attention of men that they'd willingly betray and harm members of their own sex. — Sarah J. Maas

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system. — Eliot Spitzer

Do not wear yourself out fighting facts;
do not be weary of seeking truth.
Truth is more than information.
It is the gatekeeper of knowledge. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Look at problems from as many viewpoints as possible. Figure out the implications of the problem. Implement the solution. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A thing is either alive or it isn't; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it. — Donald C. Peattie

An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government. — George Papandreou

She had been his talisman, his cure for the insecurities and worries that he knew deep down didn't really matter, but somehow had always managed to get the best of him. — Erik Tomblin

Across the moon-pale scar that marred my forearm, Darian danced in dark ink, the gracefully curving edges of his name unravelling into a spill of colour as joyful and haphazard as the promise of stars. — Alexis Hall