Waiss Lankford Quotes & Sayings

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing. — Lou Gramm

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean. — James Altucher

When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way. — Edward Whitacre Jr.

At the moment when, ordinarily, there was still an hour to be lived through before meal-time sounded, we would all know that in a few seconds we should see the endives make their precocious appearance, followed by the special favour of an omelette, an unmerited steak. The return of this asymmetrical Saturday was one of those petty occurrences, intra-mural, localised, almost civic, which, in uneventful lives and stable orders of society, create a kind of national unity, and become the favourite theme for conversation, for pleasantries, for anecdotes which can be embroidered as the narrator pleases; it would have provided a nucleus, ready-made, for a legendary cycle, if any of us had had the epic mind. — Marcel Proust

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up. — Joe Arpaio

Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint. — Francis Bacon

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. — William Shakespeare

People have to be given the freedom to show the heart they possess. I think it's a leader's responsibility to provide that type of freedom. And I believe it can be done through relationships and family. Because if a team is a real family, it's members want to show you their hearts. — Mike Krzyzewski

The pace and number of imagined obligations is neither from earth (nature's demands) nor from heaven (Nature's callings). So, they are synthetic and separated from both. The longer and deeper one invests in this synthetic process, the more exhausted and anguished one's essential spirit becomes. — Darrell Calkins

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person. — Richelle E. Goodrich

People ought to have more control over their lives. — Saxby Chambliss

When one is sitting in his bedroom and, happening to glance out the window, sees his little brother walking slowly down the driveway, he immediately jumps up, knocks over a stack of magazines piled up beside him, and runs through the doorway and down the hall. He throws open the front door, slams his body, against the screen, and hearing the tap tap tap behind him, jumps over the porch steps and down to the driveway. He stands several yards in front of his brother. He considers running, but doesn't. His arms and legs are shaking. His bottom lip between his teeth, he walks slowly and carefully, making not a sound. He stops, reaches one arm out, and pokes Gabriel Witter on the left shoulder with his index finger. He smiles the slightest of smiles.
Book Title #89: Where Things Come Back — John Corey Whaley

I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier. — Jonathan Heatt