Tisdall Park Quotes & Sayings

The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them. — Anasazi Foundation

Success is important but what you become on the way to success is more important. — Debasish Mridha

My dad couldn't connect to my wanting to be a filmmaker. He was very connected in entertainment, and through him I met Steven Spielberg and got rides on his private plane to California. I'd see Spielberg's people reading scripts. I was like, 'That's what I want to be when I grow up.' — Doug Liman

I just try to concentrate on concentrating. — Martina Navratilova

Awake and listen, you that are lonely! From the future come winds with stealthy wings, and to subtle ears good tidings are proclaimed. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not democratic. Art is sublime. — Minae Mizumura

I'd say we're all just ghosts on a wire seeking the prick of an electric thought. — Robert Fanney

As you know, the International Poker Tour, by its own admission, knows very little about poker games, one of which ended tragically last week when an IPT-sanctioned tournament aboard a yacht in Australia accidentally used tarot cards instead of playing cards. That's right, it's true! Apparently no one noticed until someone laid down a full house and the dealer died. — Elle Lothlorien

It uses the greatest random-access indexing system ever invented - one that computer scientists haven't come even close to replicating. Whereas an index in the back of a book provides a single address - a page number - for each important subject, each subject in the brain has hundreds if not thousands of addresses. Our internal memories are associational, nonlinear. You don't need to know where a particular memory is stored in order to find it. It simply turns up - or doesn't - when you need it. Because of the dense network that interconnects our memories, we can skip around from memory to memory and idea to idea very rapidly. — Joshua Foer

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. — Larry Ellison

Tonight, can we just pretend you want me too? — N'Zuri Za Austin

Language is what eases the pain of living with other people, language is what makes the wounds come open again. — Anne Carson

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work. — George Gershwin