Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.
Everybody's funny if you love them.
I think my attitude's different when I'm in the different places. I don't walk around in character. I try not to walk around with the accent, but those little things change you, whether it's your hair, your clothes, your shoes or a different silhouette. People absolutely look at you differently.
The secret to life is trusting yourself and loving who you are, just the way you are.
I work in an industry where everyone is flawlessly beautiful, but I just want to be healthy.
I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.
Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imagined future, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love or a passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convinced that even the smallest particle of the surrounding world was charged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, and one would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind- loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by the high, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, so many and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like fireflies in the perfumed heat of summer night.
Poor people always pay back their loans. [. . . ] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.
Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.