Stordahl Contracting Quotes & Sayings

She was melting inside. Melting and burning all at the same time. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture. — Winston Churchill

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down. — Donald O'Connor

The most important social welfare program in America is a job. — Newt Gingrich

But you can't fault me on my footnotes. I've worked hard on them and they look pretty impressive. And almost all the sources I quote actually exist. I must confess, however, that the idea of putting footnotes in chapter 5, the autobiographical chapter, started out simply as a joke. Who but a biblical scholar would think of footnoting an autobiography? But the joke quickly got out of hand and become a significant part of that chapter. I plan someday to write a scholarly article consisting of a single sentence and a twenty-page footnote. — Jeffrey L. Staley

No one was coming to save me. I was alone. I welcomed the darkness to take me, and I closed my eyes to this world. — Ashlan Thomas

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. — Milan Kundera

to follow one's instincts with due regard to the policeman round the corner, had not acted very well there: it was because Cronshaw had done this that he had made such a lamentable failure of existence. It seemed that the instincts could not be trusted. Philip was puzzled, and he asked himself what rule of life was there, if that one was useless, and why people acted in one way rather than in another. They acted according to their emotions, but their emotions might be good or bad; it seemed just a chance whether they led to triumph or disaster. Life seemed an inextricable confusion. Men hurried hither and thither, urged by forces they knew not; and the purpose of it all escaped them; they seemed to hurry just for hurrying's sake. — William Somerset Maugham

But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. — Jennifer Egan

Jess actually dreaded having a boyfriend, because of having to tell her mum. Perhaps she would just avoid it until her mum eighty or something and in an old-people's home, and then Jess, who would by then be about fifty, would drop by and casually remark, "Oh, by the way, Mum, I've got a boyfriend." And even then her mum would probebly hurtle out of her wheelchair and smack her hard across the face, crying "You trash! You whore! Get outta my house--I mean, my room!" It was hard sometimes, being the daughter of a radical feminist who hated men. — Sue Limb

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor. — Gary Sinise

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If you spend most of your time turned away from people, you get to know what they're doing without having to see it. — Sophie Kinsella