Swope Health Quotes & Sayings

Well, I tried being in front of the camera as a student and that was terrifying. But the press stuff about me growing up on his [film] sets has been exaggerated. I was an extra as a kid and I was also a PA [production assistant] on one of his movies, so I was lucky to get production experience. But I was nowhere near him. — Nicole Holofcener

It is surely very narrow policy that supposes money to be the chief good. — Samuel Johnson

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. — Godfrey Reggio

Not men who ran the world, but who made it run. — Ian McEwan

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria, — Chris McDaniel

The extreme geniality of San Francisco's economic, intellectual and political climate makes it the most varied and challenging city in the United States. — James A. Michener

There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7. — Gail Collins

There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness. — Shannon L. Alder

J. D. Salinger, the greatly loved author who "had elected to silence himself. He had freedom of speech but what he had ended up wanting more than anything else, it seemed, was the freedom to be silent. — Michael Hofmann

A large salary does not make a person rich, it is a diligent hand that does. — Sunday Adelaja

To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg. He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him; for the great swans swam round the newcomer and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome. — Hans Christian Andersen

I'm not strange to myself, but I realize that I contrast with others fairly sharply. — Jane Smiley