Somptueusement Quotes & Sayings

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me. — Linda Grant

Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox ... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world. — Caitlyn Jenner

Nicholas says that magic isn't inherently good or bad, it's what people do with it that makes it that way. It took me a long time to understand that. Once I did, I realized it isn't magic that separates us from them, or you from me. It's misunderstanding. — Virginia Boecker

I was in my element, excuse the pun. — Adele Rose

I think when someone is injured in your family, you want to speak to the individual and you want to hear their voice and you want to make sure they are OK. — Roger Goodell

Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver. — Nicholas Sparks

Poetry lets me pour out my various emotions even the suppressed ones we didn't know exist inside us' til the moment you start jotting down what you're feeling. It's more than an escape into the unknown, a refuge for your creativity and sometimes wild imagination not all ordinary, ungifted people like us understand. -Elizabeth's Quotes — Elizabeth E. Castillo

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people! — Chrisette Michele

Where there's music there can be no evil. — Cervantes Instituto

Veteran trader Marty O'Connell calls this the firehouse effect. He had observed that firemen with much downtime who talk to each other for too long come to agree on many things that an outside, impartial observer would find ludicrous (they develop political ideas that are very similar). Psychologists give it a fancier name, but my friend Marty has no training in behavioral sciences. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Business is essentially applied rationality:
a systematic process of thinking that produces a real-world result. Instead of mortgaging your life to go to business school, it's possible to dramatically increase your knowledge of business on your own time and with little cost - without setting foot inside a classroom. — Josh Kaufman

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. — Robert Breault

Who doesn't want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn't grow up wanting to be the best? I'm no different. I want to be the best. I've always wanted to be the best. — R.A. Dickey