Spainhour Quotes & Sayings

Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change. — Alyson Noel

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. — Henry David Thoreau

The larger Europe grows, the more diverse must be the forms of co-operation it requires. Instead of a centralised bureaucracy, the model should be a market - not only a market of individuals and companies, but also a market in which the players are governments.
Thus governments would compete with each other for foreign investments, top management and high earners through lower taxes and less regulation.
Such a market would impose a fiscal discipline on governments because they would not want to drive away expertise and business.
It would also help to establish which fiscal and regulatory policies produced the best overall economic results.
No wonder socialists don't like it. — Margaret Thatcher

Two common Chinese words that are usually pronounced incorrectly here in the U.S., by nearly all television and radio broadcasters, are the words "Beijing" and "yuan." The "j" in the name of China's capital city is not pronounced with the soft "j" sound like Je suis in French. The Chinese language lacks that sound entirely. The "j" in "Beijing" is pronounced like the "j" in "jingle." The yuan is China's currency, just as the dollar is ours. It is not pronounced "you-anne" or "you-awn." It is pronounced "you-when," or "U.N." when said quickly as if it were one syllable. — Larry Herzberg

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers. — Thom Yorke

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate. — Tommy Amaker

I've always been a little soft. I like to eat. — Chris Pratt

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley! — Dr. Seuss

I had just been doing graffiti around New York and this real estate investor guy had walked through meat packing in New York and saw some of my graffiti. He was impressed and asked if I sold canvases. I really had not made any canvases of my graffiti work yet, but told him I could make one for him. He then commissioned me to make ten paintings and put on my first art show. Between the sold out show and the cops chasing after me it created a lot of media and I've been doing really well since then. — Alec Monopoly

Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself. — Alessandro Baricco

Somehow if she'd know the worst parts, she couldn't have gone on being a haven for him ... Men said they didn't tell their women about France because they didn't want to worry them. but it was more than that. He needed her ignorance to hide in. Yet, at the same time, he wanted to know and be known as deeply as possible. And the two desires were irreconcilable. — Pat Barker

My brave, beautiful Chiara," he muttered. "God help you if you want me as much as I want you. — Lara Adrian

My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will. — Jane Smiley

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films. — Vincent D'Onofrio

A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people ...
"A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which just means that the more you walk around your place the better everything seems to grow and flourish. — John Marsden

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri