Threepence Bracelet Quotes & Sayings

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity. — Tony Hoare

As much as Jefferson loved France residence abroad gave him greater appreciation for his own nation. He was a tireless advocate for things American while abroad, and a promoter of things European while at home. Moving between two worlds, translating the best of the old into the new and explaining the benefits of the new to the old, he created a role for himself as both intermediary and arbiter. — Jon Meacham

What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension of human need or of human justification. It is itself and it is inviolate, itself. This does not mean that, therefore, we become separated from it, because we don't. We stay connected if, once in our lives, we learn exactly what that connection is between our heart, our womb, our mind, and wilderness. And when each of us has her wilderness within her, we can be together in a balanced kind of way. The forever, we have that within us. — Paula Gunn Allen

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. — L. Adams Beck

Not smoking is not an achievement. Like virginity, it comes standard. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping. — Christy Hall

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. — Patrick Marber

Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air. — Louis Zamperini

When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore. — Kevin Rollins

A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!! — Stacy-Deanne

I'm not giving up my life. My life began when I met you. — Shannon Eckrich

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities. — Hanif Kureishi

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide. — Victoria Chang

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. — B.B. King

There is a vast gulf between perfection and near perfection, and that gulf is filled with agony. — Larry Correia