
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that. —
Olivia D'Abo

As long as ratings are directly linked to pay and career opportunities, every employee has this incentive to exploit the system. —
Laszlo Bock

We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let her remain where she is. A constellation away. —
Eric Gamalinda

I'm not nearly as outrageously brave as many of my rascals that I write. But I think the rascal spirit must reside in me somewhere. —
Christopher Moore

Mankind had built a world that would take hundred years to die. A century for the last lights to go out. —
Justin Cronin

Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways. —
Gwendolyn Heasley

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day. —
Kimberly Willis Holt

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system,
incentive pay, business plans, quotas. —
W. Edwards Deming

Fun is never gone because life is fun. —
Debasish Mridha

If you are a crazy person who needs to have clandestine meetings, then, just like in real estate, what matters most is location, location, location. —
Holly Black

Conor held tightly onto his mother.
And by doing so, he could finally let her go. —
Patrick Ness