Surgener Construction Quotes & Sayings

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons and now were ahead of us in space. So my parents marched me and Owen into our living room, sat us down, and said, " You boys are going to study math and Science so we can beat the Soviets!"
I thought that was a lot of pressure to put on a six-year old. But own and I were obedient sons, so we studied math and science. And we were good at it.. Owen was the first in our family to go to college. He went to MIT, graduating with a degree in physics, and then became a photographer.
I went to Harvard, and became a comedian. My poor parents.
But we still beat the Soviets. You're welcome. — Al Franken

I see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels. — Nikki Rowe

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration. — Tama J. Kieves

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you. — Brian Tracy

Work hard ... have fun ... be nice ... play fair ... dream big. We only get one chance at this life. If you're going to play this game, play it to win. — Robert Herjavec

As nice as some of the booths are, it's not the same thing. It's a pity for young artists, because one of the things that a younger artist can look forward to is an emerging dealer who has a space that they can take over and build whatever will suit whatever aesthetic they find themselves in. In an art fair, you turn yourself into an object. — Lawrence Weiner

What did people do when the ones they needed died? She lay curled on her bed, feeling as though part of her chest had been roughly scooped out, left raw and exposed. — Helene Wecker

I think I wrote the first draft of 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in '79. No one wanted to buy it. Nobody. I felt very strongly about it, so I stayed with it and kept paying my assistant and everything. At a certain point, I was literally flat broke. — Wes Craven

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid
or, if he did, he liked it. — Jean Plaidy

Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished. — Calvin Coolidge

In the calm violence of your being, desire. — Carole Maso

There is only one guide you need, and it is inside you. — Indigo Ocean

I'm Rick by the way. Remember that, darlin', 'cause you'll be screaming it later. — Lily Harlem

I would fain coin wisdom, - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men - as base money - the words by which they cheat and are cheated! — Joseph Joubert

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront. — Ryan Hurst