Zampelli Mansion Quotes & Sayings

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned. — Wally Lamb

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings. — Henri Nouwen

If you haven't gotten a raise in the past couple years for a job well done, it might be time to ask for one. — Jean Chatzky

A great editor sees the Story globally and microscopically at the same time. He has x-ray vision. He looks down from thirty thousand feet. A great editor can break down a narrative into themes, concepts, acts, sequences, scenes, lines, beats. A great editor has studied narrative from Homer to Shakespeare to Quentin Tarantino. He can tell you what needs fixing, and he can tell you how to fix it. — Shawn Coyne

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy. — Evgeny Morozov

It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer. — Caitlin Moran

I do not like your name, sir," she answered.
"There was no thought of pleasing you when I was christened." he quoted lazily. — Georgette Heyer

Every sacred mission, every hunt for hidden relics, every pilgrimage from one end of the earth to the other ... I was looking for you. — Dianna Hardy

Maybe T-shirts should stick to something obvious, like i'm a girl or 80% water or likely to breathe. — Shannon Hale

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome" - USMC, unofficial — U.S. Marine Corps

I am gluten free, dairy free and sugar free, although I do slip up on the sugar sometimes because I have a big sweet tooth! — Tabatha Coffey

I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world. — Lawrence Schiller

Most people, if they were generous, were so because they thought life was short and that one must make the most of it. Sid Baxter was generous because he knew that life was long. It went on and on even when you had no use for it anymore. It was happiness, not life, that was short, and when it visited - in the form of a fine evening spent talking with a friend - he honoured it. — Jennifer Donnelly