Wishing A Successful Tenure Quotes & Sayings

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. — Jean Baudrillard

I realize that as I get more experience as I get older, my perception changes and that feeds the photograph. — Stephen Shore

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it. — Dwayne Johnson

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes. — David Mitchell

All things are from water and all things are resolved into water. — Thales

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I'm on set and there's no other option, I get on a treadmill, but that's my most hated thing. — Anna Kendrick

But strangers and the poor may pluck for themselves the fruit from my tree: that causes less shame. But beggars should be entirely done away with! Truly, it annoys one to give to them and it annoys one not to give to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure! — Charles Dickens

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk. — Travis Barker

No one preached to me ... No one had to ... I wouldn't have listened anyway. I became a believer from a direct encounter with an answered prayer. I came face to face with God and all his power in a tiny bathroom in Washington. — Jacci Mendelsohn

She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy. — Elizabeth Goudge

As life goes on I'm learning to trust myself more, so I am more comfortable - you have to be, doing things in front of people, especially when there's lots of pressure. I have to make decisions. — Tyler Blackburn

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way. — Mark Roberts