Wieberg Quotes & Sayings

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea. — Beverly Cleary

On the plane leaving Tokyo I'm sitting alone in back twisting the knobs on Etch-A-Sketch and Roger is next to me singing "Over the Rainbow" straight into my ear, things changing, falling apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn't give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting made by people you don't even know that it requires you to lose any sense of reality you might have once acquired, expectations so unreasonable you become superstitious about ever matching them. Roger offers me a joint and I take a drag and stare out the window and I relax for a moment when the lights of Tokyo, which I never realized is an island, vanish from view but this feeling only lasts a moment because Roger is telling me that other lights in other cities, in other countries, on other planets, are coming into view soon. — Bret Easton Ellis

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures. — W. Edwards Deming

Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily. — Max Baucus

I stared at a tree against dusk
Till it was a girl
Standing beside a country road
Shucking cane with her teeth.
She looked up & smiled
& waved. Lost in what hurts,
In what tasted good, could she
Ever learn there's no love
In sugar? — Yusef Komunyakaa

Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy." — Stacy Peralta

Do something new, do something correct, do something quick. And don't worry about doing all three simultaneously. — Myself

Yes, but the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, 'Everybody up, it's morning,' it's very hard to find your slippers. — Woody Allen

Participate in your life, don't just bear witness to the rain washing you away. — Thomm Quackenbush

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed. — Tom Wolfe

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again. — James Brown

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men. — Petrus Borel