Surnow Companies Quotes & Sayings

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem. — Kiki Dimoula

It's a fairly simple rhetorical trick, the comic laundry list of the traveler's experiences, but it also calls attention to the writer's powers of observation and establishes that the writer's voice, rather than the subject matter, will be the star of the show. But it brings with it the risk of seducing the reader into loving the narrator and loathing the people described. Wallace called this 'the Asshole Problem. — Christian Lorentzen

We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about what they teach, and who can communicate with kids. — Parker J. Palmer

Here, economists will recognize the principle of price differentiation formulated by the engineer-economist Jules Dupuit in 1849: "To set a price for a service, don't base it on what it costs the provider, but instead set the price according to the importance of the service to the user."[10] — Bernard Girard

Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well. — Fred Couples

When my now ex wife said she wanted a separation, I was horrified. So I said, "You want me to wear a condom?! — Jarod Kintz

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made ... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan'. — Steven Spielberg