Yoknapatawpha Map Quotes & Sayings

Have a relentless commitment to consistency of message. It might be the 15th time you've given the speech, but some people may never have heard it. Or, some people may have heard it four times but it's the first time they've internalized it. — David M. Cote

A fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — Saul Bellow

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun. — Alison Lurie

You went out with a girl at first because the sheer sight of her made you weak in the knees. You fell in love and were desperate not to let her get away. And yet the more you thought about her, the less you knew who she was. The hope was that love transcended all differences. That was the hope. — Jeffrey Eugenides

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics - greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else. — Noam Chomsky

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data — John Sculley

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace. — Richard Baxter

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get. — Bill Hader

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated. — Pico Iyer

To human beings it won't look or feel like a war, it'll be more like ... one of those modernist paintings you lot do, if it melted. Inside all your brains. Forever. — Paul Cornell

Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear, your fear of not being welcome in this life, and your death fear, your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived. — Henri J.M. Nouwen