Whitlee Layne Quotes & Sayings

In high school, I actually thought I was going to have to learn Japanese to work in technology. My big feeling was I just missed it, I missed the whole thing. It had happened in the '80s, and I got here too late. But then, I'm maybe the most optimistic person I know. I mean, I'm incredibly optimistic. — Marc Andreessen

Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. — Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience. — Douglas Trumbull

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition. — Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. — Jeanette Winterson

True strength is delicate. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain. — Henri Matisse

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down. — Francois Rabelais

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that. — Julie Andrews

I'm more of an older school comedian so Tommy Davidson still makes me laugh a lot no matter how many times I've heard his jokes or not. He's just an animated comedian that I don't mind seeing over and over again. — Joe Torry

To help us bring benefit to others through our words and actions, it is useful to cultivate an attitude of sympathetic joy in others' achievements and good fortune. This attitude is a powerful antidote against envy, which is not only a source of unnecessary suffering on the individual level but also an obstacle to our ability to reach out and engage with others. — Dalai Lama

Simply put, we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. — Michael Scanlon

BLOOM: I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron.
INTERVIEWER: It's always interminable?
BLOOM: I do not know anyone who has ever benefited from Freudian or any other mode of analysis, except by being, to use the popular trope for it, so badly shrunk, that they become quite dried out. That is to say, all passion spent. Perhaps they become better people, but they also become stale and uninteresting people with very few exceptions. Like dried-out cheese, or wilted flowers. — Harold Bloom

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. — Nellie L. McClung

These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud. — Anna Quindlen