Susan Orlean Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine. – Susan Orlean Black Quotes Cars Quotes Country Quotes Dazzling Quotes Fields Quotes Filthy Quotes Grit Quotes Mounds Quotes Plows Quotes Pristine Quotes Roads Quotes Shoulders Quotes Untouched Quotes White Quotes Winter Quotes One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend. I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that’s how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little – silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.
David Lichtenstein One valuable lesson I learned is that buying cheap is very important. Buying without debt is also very important. Leverage is your enemy. – David Lichtenstein
Sal Khan I was always asking people about their work. How do you do a job like that? Do you love it? What does it pay? I was lucky to have access to people who could answer my questions. Otherwise, my life could have turned out very differently. – Sal Khan
Ricky Williams Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with. – Ricky Williams
Reinhold Messner The mountains are dangerous. Only an unintelligent person will say they are not dangerous. – Reinhold Messner
Christine Quinn I’ve already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class. – Christine Quinn
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