Homer Hickam I ate supper after Dad saw the evening shift down the shaft, and I went to sleep to the ringing of a hammer on steel and the dry hiss of an arc welder at the little tipple machine shop during the hoot-owl shift. – Homer Hickam Arc Quotes Ate Quotes Dad Quotes Dry Quotes Evening Quotes Hammer Quotes Hiss Quotes Hootowl Quotes Machine Quotes Ringing Quotes Shaft Quotes Shift Quotes Shop Quotes Sleep Quotes Steel Quotes Supper Quotes Tipple Quotes Welder Quotes A memoir is not an autobiography. It’s a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he’s writing a novel. But it’s got to be true. Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.
Anna Held At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them. – Anna Held
Jeff Bezos I don’t think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you’re willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn’t work. If you’re going to invent, it means you’re going to experiment, and if you’re going to experiment, you’re going to fail, and if you’re going to fail, you have to think long term. – Jeff Bezos
Henry Reed What is it like to fall asleep? What happens? Where do we go? Why don’t we remember? Since childhood most of us have wondered about the mystery of sleep. – Henry Reed
Phil Lesh Because, first of all, we were becoming aware during that tour that there was a group of people that was following the band around, and they weren’t interested in coming in to the shows, they were just interested in hangin’ out outside and tryin’ to break in. – Phil Lesh
Morgan Freeman When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God’s gift to the theater. – Morgan Freeman
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