Stockroom Picks Quotes & Sayings

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. — Aimee Bender

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so. — Isaac Newton

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. — Dallin H. Oaks

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings. — William J. Clinton

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone

Any excuse to live in New York and do art. Has to be one of the most rewarding experiences in the world. — Tommy Chong

Mark Twain said that Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before. — Anne Lamott

Alaska did not produce supermen, but in its formative periods it was served by men of character and determination, and it is a fortunate land which knows such public servants. — James A. Michener

No estoy quemando"
"It was too late now to choose anything."
"I turned off my brain. It was time to hunt — Stephenie Meyer

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. — Ashley Montagu

Nothing can scatter like 3 Siamese cats better than 2 Siamese cats. — Lilian Jackson Braun

The principal difference between her "seductive" and her other self-portraits was the absence of self-awareness in the former and its strong presence in the latter. With time, she became brutally direct. In her later self-portraits she was no longer beautiful, merely odd-looking. She did not seduce, she simply drew attention to herself. Her face became hard, serious. The pronounced cheekbones and heavy eyebrows looks as if they had been carved out of stone. The stern black eyes looked either straight through or straight past the viewer. She deliberately exaggerated the brutality of her self-portraits. She was saying: Look at me, I'm alive and it hurts. These self-portraits were like attestations to her existence: one, two, three, four...Exhibitionism, they said. But for her, painting self-portraits was a kind of magical rite, a kind of exorcism. — Slavenka Drakulic