Trattner Girls Quotes & Sayings

While I sleep, and I sleep often these days, he spends much of his time in the church downtown. The very one I never could convince him to attend. He claims he is praying. But I know he is trying to strike a bargain with our Maker.
One hand of Black Jack, I know he says. Winner gets to keep the girl.
I know for sure, were J. granted that game of cars with the Almighty, he'd go into it with both an ace and a jack up his sleeve. — Suzanne Brockmann

Years, and nobody knows why. It may be that Robert Gordon and the techno-pessimists are — Brink Lindsey

She could hear the voices and laughter coming from the yard, and she thought, really, this was the best part of any wedding, not the ceremony or the cake or the dancing but the downtime when they were all together without the lights shining on them. — Elin Hilderbrand

Is not parody the eternal lot of man? — Milan Kundera

I always think to shoot action scenes is not really about the stunts. It's more about an expression and about imagination. — Wong Kar-Wai

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it. — Ryan Reynolds

Working is a great distraction technique. — Phyllis Logan

[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of a Biblical prophet (modified by the material of the Muhammadan evangelium into an Arabian man of God) with a traditional message of salvation (modified by the influence of Rabbinic Judaism into the unmediated and finally immutable word of God). — John Wansbrough

Christian wives tend to leave the 'fat books' and theology to their husbands. While this may look 'submissive' to some, it is actually disobedience. It is not enough that we know Proverbs 31, Ephesians 5, 1 Peter 3, and 1 Corinthians 1 and 14. We have to know more than how to be a good wife. After all, our calling is to be good Christians; and if we are good Christians, we will be good wives and mothers. We mustn't be afraid to deal with topics other than those which directly deal with being a wife and mother. — Nancy Wilson

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go. — James Alan Gardner

I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants-silicon memory systems, collaborative online filters, consumer preference algorithms and networked knowledge. We can burden these servants and liberate ourselves. — David Brooks

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way. — Markus Zusak