What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome
Recitation: by Male by Female
Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.
John Burnside
LoveBeautyGirlThinkMomentsDark
Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.
John Hickenlooper
CommunityEmpathyDemocracyDecisions
In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
Jeff Raikes
ChangeBusinessTimeFeedbackYou
I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.
Jean-Michel Jarre
MusicTimeInternetDoingDream
Twitter has restored my faith in humanity. I thought I'd hate it, but while there are lots of knobheads, there are even more lovely people. It delights me how witty and friendly most people are.
John Simm
FaithHatePeopleMeThoughtWitty
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
Sue Grafton
BlueLawyerNeverSheCollarKinsey
I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.
Ruth Negga
LifeExperiencePeopleWritingBlack
I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you'd never do is relevant.
Joss Whedon
Never Give UpThoughtYouBackNever
I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
BookAppreciateChurchKnowSacred
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
Chris Crutcher
BookYouBe CarefulAnythingDate
I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.
Christie Hefner
GreatNew YorkCityThinkNewOwn
Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
Brian Selznick
WorkBestMeStoryTryingSometimes
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