Straatmann Toyota Quotes & Sayings

It's like you're born with all these blessings, only you don't realize they're blessings until you lose them. And if you're thick-headed enough, like me, you don't even realize you've lost them, not until they come back to you. — Kevin Brockmeier

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em. — Carson Kressley

But by doing impressions, you can broaden that scope," Valli told a National Public Radio interviewer much, much later. "There will be more possibilities when you're singing. — Jennifer Warner

The Rolling Stones are truly the greatest rock and roll band in the world and always will be. The last too. Everything that came after them, metal, rap, punk, new wave, pop-rock, you name it ... you can trace it all back to the Rolling Stones. They were the first and the last and no one's ever done it better. — Bob Dylan

I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family. — Kate Hudson

Is there anything to lose in life? No. The only lost in life is death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Righteousness is light;
wickedness is darkness.
Righteousness and joy are brothers;
evil and sorrow are cousins. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Presidents are always also storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies. And surprisingly enough, Richard Nixon, this awkward man who didn't even really like people, had not been so bad at this duty - at least in the first four years of his presidency. — Rick Perlstein

Socrates, Plato, Jesus, Buddha and countless other mystics, in countless cultures, have preached the same thing
that we all exist amid a blur of uncertainty. That one can never know complete truth about physical reality via our senses alone. Much is made of the differences between their systems ... Socrates teaching reason, Buddha urging meditation, and Jesus prescribing faith. But what they all had in common was far more important. Each of those sage-prophets worried that the power of human egotism tends to make us lie to ourselves, leading to error, hypocrisy, and all too often, the rationalization of evil actions. — David Brin

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie. — Reid Hoffman

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff

I never cease to amaze myself. And I say this humbly — Don King

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world. — Brian Helgeland

Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people. — Sally Phillips