The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

I'd think,'In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight.' Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldn't be married if your that kind of person.

George Clooney

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

Veronica Roth

Some years ago, writing about stage adaptations of fiction, I noted:

John Simon, Movies Into Film, Di

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

Joe Lieberman

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde

The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.

Raymond Chandler

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert A. Heinlein

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

(Edward A. Murphy Murphy's Law

The where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically , and so, eventually, it does.People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is .There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle .

Terry Pratchett

Panic, fear, worry, doubt, negativity ... words not recognized by Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Littl