Taylor Caldwell Quotes

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Taylor Caldwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 7, 1900 - August 30, 1985

Topics

SleepYouLivingPreySafeFortune

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

Jim Lovell

SpaceMoonWindowPerceptionLook

I think one of the main challenges that the World Bank faces is creating an organizational structure that doesn't get in the way of its staff. We have fantastic staff. People told me as I was coming into the organization that the greatest asset of the World Bank Group is its staff, and I think there's no question that that's the case.

Jim Yong Kim

PeopleChallengesOrganizationWorld

Bring market forces to bear on health care insurers. Creating a health care 'exchange,' one of the better ideas included in House Bill 3200, creates affordable, accessible and portable insurance for millions of Americans.

Andrew P. Harris

HealthIdeasCareBetterInsurance

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

Robert Gottlieb

BestFightYouSayStreetCompany

Some weeks there's no writing, and some weeks are full of writing.

Ann Packer

WritingFullSomeWeeks

We are all born with an innate understanding of interpersonal equity - the idea that if you lend me your rake today, I'll respond in kind when you come to borrow my shovel tomorrow. Or nearly all of us are born with that. Psychopaths aren't.

Jeffrey Kluger

TodayTomorrowMeUnderstandingYou

Scandinavia can be quite fashionable.

Sigrid

QuiteFashionable

We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

Mitchell Baker

CommunityPeopleThinkYouActive

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Lucille Ball

WomenMeAfraidInterestBeenHurts

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

Denise Mina

ScienceLyingDeadUniversityHead

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

Donald Knuth

SciencePeopleBetterLivingEarn

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

Chris Cornell

SongWriteContextMelancholySome

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