Visionarian Quotes & Sayings

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it. — Calvin Coolidge

Gardening is all about optimism. — Mary Anne Radmacher

My plat de resistance is potato salad with garlic and olive oil which we press from the olives from my trees in the grounds of my home near St Remy de Provence. I have four hectares and take the olives down to the local community press at Maussane les Alpilles. I don't produce big quantities; it is just for the family and friends. — Jean Reno

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! — Robert Peel

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. — Thomas Sowell

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. — Jennifer Egan

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. — Zosia Mamet

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys. — Melissa Rosenberg

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. — Alexander Herzen

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man — Patricia Briggs

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it. — Robin Williams

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle. — Paula Cole

Once I knew only darkness and stillness ... my life was without past or future ... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. — Helen Keller