Tastemakers Conference Quotes & Sayings

For over two centuries, Americans have grown up in a society that rewards hard work, protects innovation, and allows its citizens to constantly break new barriers. The key element to this success rests on freedom and the ability of individuals to strive toward achieving their dreams and making their children's futures better than their own. — Renee Ellmers

He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly coloring the air. — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe that eyes are very important motifs. That's something that can discern the peace and love. — Yayoi Kusama

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

What use is a god with boundless mercy, sir? You mock me as a pagan, yet the gods of my ancestors pronounce clearly their ways and punish severely when we break their laws. Your Christian god of mercy gives men licence to pursue their greed, their lust for land and blood, knowing a few prayers and a little penance will bring forgiveness and blessing. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless of their race, their gender, their national background, or their political persuasions. — David H. Koch

You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo]. — Steven Zaillian

Snow is so common that I have omitted to note its falling at least two days out of Three. — William Henry Ashley

I think I will try and sleep. Wake me if we're about to die. — George R R Martin

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? — W. L. George

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today. — Orrin Woodward

when they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man's real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin. — Thomas Berger

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter. -Jim Elliot — Elisabeth Elliot