Troldekugler Quotes & Sayings

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway. — Nora Dunn

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. — Aimee Mann

He didn't say anything to the contrary or interrupt me in any way, which was nice. (Polite listening skills really are rare, don't you think?) — Matthew Quick

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. — Abigail Van Buren

Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed. — Jon Gordon

I really like writing heroes who aren't necessarily 'Hollywood handsome.' Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too! — Suzanne Brockmann

Welfare bureaucracies claim a professional, political, and financial monopoly over the social imagination, setting standards of what is valuable and what is feasible. This monopoly is at the root of the modernization of poverty. Every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permits the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty. Once basic needs have been translated by a society into demands for scientifically produced commodities, poverty is defined by standards which the technocrats can change at will. Poverty then refers to those who have fallen behind an advertised ideal of consumption in some important respect. — Ivan Illich

It's a new dawn, it's a new day ... and I'm feeling good. — Nina Simone

What is the difference between a gangster pulling out a gun and demanding you give him a thousand dollars of "protection money," and that same gangster pulling out a gun and demanding you provide him with a thousand-dollar "loan"? In — David Graeber

I don't have to look at your eyes to listen that's what
my ears are for. — Tina J. Richardson

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As much as we Egyptians treasure our military, acting alone it cannot provide the legitimacy to lay the foundations for democracy. — Mohamed ElBaradei

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can. — Stephanie Rice