Stuart Scott Espy Speech Quotes & Sayings

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent. — Ani DiFranco

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true. — Selena Gomez

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

I scoffed. "Why would I fall in love with you? You're just a hot, closet-nerd vampire with a bazillion dollars and a Harley. There's absolutely nothing attractive about you."
"I'm repulsive, I know. — Temple West

The new co-operation government will do the best it can to address the country's problems, and I believe that with the co-operation of all - and the new government stresses this - and the unity of all, we will achieve that. — Lucas Papademos

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure. — Tommy Lasorda

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes. — Amy Cuddy

We are seeing it. We are seeing the fabric of this country fall apart, and it's falling apart because of single moms. — Rick Santorum

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did. — Henry Rollins

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen. — Paul Bowles

I have defeat tattooed in my DNA. My great-uncle was shot dead. My grandfather was given the death sentence and spent five years in jail. My grandmothers suffered the humiliation of those defeated in the Civil War. My father was put in jail. My mother was politically active in the underground. It bothers me enormously to lose, I can't stand it. And I've spent many years, with some friends, devoting almost all of our political activity to thinking about how we can win. — Pablo Iglesias

Click. Everyone briefly gathered and posed and smiling at their future selves. Beaches and cathedrals, bumper cars and birthday parties, glasses raised around a dining table. Each picture a little pause between events. No tantrums, no illness, no bad news, all the big stuff happening before and after and in between. The true magic happening only when the lesser magic fails, the ghost daughter who moved during the exposure, her face unreadable but more alive than all her frozen family. Double exposures, as if a little strip of time had been folded back on itself. Scratches and sun flares. Photos torn postdivorce, faces scratched out or Biroed over. The camera telling the truth only when something slips through its silver fingers. — Mark Haddon

Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical. — Abraham Verghese

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him. — Malcolm X