Valladares Vanessa Quotes & Sayings

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier. — Jeannette Rankin

In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it. — Bill Gates

When a bloke takes you out for a meal You'd think sex would be part of the deal Not a pat on the head And a cold lonely bed When he leaves without copping a feel — J.L. Merrow

When the love-led man had ceased from his labours Bathsheba came and looked him in the face.
'Gabriel, will you you stay on with me?' she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.
'I will,' said Gabriel.
And she smiled on him again. — Thomas Hardy

Strong processes with measurable outcomes eliminate bureaucracy and expose underperformers. — John Rossman

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it. — Kimberly Willis Holt

That's how you came here, like a star without a name. Move across the night sky with those anonymous lights. — Rumi

But she also saw that the Boyds were people whose love came with added sourness - and maybe, as a result, their son had developed the capacity for unspeakable sadness, and who could blame him? Dennis and Jules had both come from families that hadn't really felt good. This they'd shared, and when they'd come together it was to make a home that did feel good, and even sometimes to say: Fuck you, disappointing families. — Meg Wolitzer

He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie. — Anais Nin

The atmosphere sets the tone for what is to take place in that space at that time. Your attitude impacts the atmosphere. How is your current attitude affecting the atmosphere and your desired outcome? — Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! — Leo Tolstoy