Stellio Player Quotes & Sayings

Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation. — James Surowiecki

But the slice-of-life novel is really not so much a world apart as an interlude - like the conference or the film set, the holiday hotel or the voyage by sea or air. You enter it, you live there for a while, you leave again. Perhaps it will alter you; usually it will not. I suspect that the book which takes you into a world apart must also _trouble_ you, at least a little. And the troubling stays with you, like the grit in the oyster, and afterwards you are changed. — Susan Cooper

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger. — Chuck Jones

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. — Emmanuelle Beart

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. — Harold S. Geneen

The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth. — Timothy Keller

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. — Lenore Coffee

Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant ... everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that. — Nicholas Sparks

Our promise was to deliver value before profit, ... — Biz Stone

What I think is so special about "Goosebumps" [movie] is it kind of a badge of courage for kids. They're scared and then they get through it and they're so proud of themselves that they made it through. — Neal H. Moritz

We are slumberous poppies,
Lords of Lethe downs,
Some awake and some asleep,
Sleeping in our crowns.
What perchance our dreams may know,
Let our serious may know. — Leigh Hunt

Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians. — Laurence Equilbey

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing. — Tom Rath

My task might be monumental, but my gift - my curse - was the only means I had of making a difference in this world. — Kathryn Purdie

I won't show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don't mean I'm frail and pathetic, only that I'm unhappy. — Marianne Curley