Technorati State Quotes & Sayings

Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus. — Tony Bates

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in. — Wayne Gretzky

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time. — Johnny Cash

Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We've all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn't deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier. — Ariel Garten

Someone asked me about what's it like managing 2.2 million associates, and I said, 'When they're Wal-Mart associates, it's not all that hard because of the quality and the depth of our talent.' I'm really proud of the fact that 70% of the managers in the U.S. started as hourly associates with our company. — Mike Duke

What they used to call soul. What they used to call spirit. Indivisible, complete, that thing made of mind, distinct from body.
He thought he had one - a soul, a spirit, a nature, an essence. He thought his mind was proof of it.
If mood, facial expression, hunger pain, love of color, if everything human and happenstance came not from the soul, the core of self, but from synapses firing and electrical signals, from the stuff in the brain that could be manipulated and X-rayed, what could he say about himself with any degree of certainty? Was mind just body more refined?
He refused to believe that. — Joshua Ferris

It's not the cards that you have all the time that makes you a winner or a loser. — Doyle Brunson

It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip. "Exactly, my lord. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Why did he have to choose tonight to turn into the perfect husband? — Sophie Kinsella

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it. — Peter Schjeldahl

Damen's understanding of Laurent rearranged itself, in order that he might despise him more accurately. — C.S. Pacat

We do treat books surprisingly lightly in contemporary culture. We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once. — Ali Smith