Spreader Trucks Quotes & Sayings

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly. — Natasha Richardson

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps. — Josemaria Escriva

On a related note, I think for many of us, the first step in becoming a good writer is to write crap. In all seriousness, none of us are born knowing how to write. Almost all of us will produce a lot of really lousy stories before we start to get good. (Not all of us will choose to publish those lousy stories, but that's a whole separate discussion ... ) — Jim C. Hines

He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

As new discoveries continued to accumulate it became apparent that almost every group of coelurosaurs had feathered representatives, from the weird secondarily herbivorous forms such as Beipiaosaurus to Dilong, an early relative of Tyrannosaurus. It is even possible that, during its early life, the most famous of the flesh-tearing dinosaurs may have been covered in a coat of dino-fuzz. — Brian Switek

Oh, Daddy, do 'splain yourself you are not 'splaining yourself at all. — H.E. Marshall

The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable character. Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in a serious novel is supposed to carry a burden of meaning larger than himself. The novelist doesn't write about people in a vacuum; he writes about people in a world where something is obviously lacking, where there is the general mystery of incompleteness and the particular tragedy of our own times to be demonstrated, and the novelist tries to give you, within the form of the book, the total experience of human nature at any time. For this reason, the greatest dramas naturally involve the salvation or loss of the soul. Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama. — Flannery O'Connor

Listen, I'm the freak. I'm the weirdo. I'm the troublemaker. I start fights. I let people down. Don't make Finch mad, whatever you do. Oh, there he goes again, in one of his moods. Moody Finch. Angry Finch. Unpredictable Finch. Crazy Finch. But I'm not a compilation of symptoms. Not a casualty of shitty parents and an even shittier chemical makeup. Not a problem. Not a diagnosis. Not an illness. Not something to be rescued. I'm a person. — Jennifer Niven

Never treat the audience disrespectfully. — Tony Bennett

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose. — Charles Fourier

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming