Clingenpeel Quotes

The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk. ~ Barbara Corcoran

Once there was you and me
We were lovers
We were friends
Before life changed
Before we were strangers
Do you still think of me? ~ Renee Carlino

Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving. ~ Janette Turner Hospital

I regret not starting to paint earlier ... It is one of the few things I do regret. ~ Francis Bacon

It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small child to believe that shooting people is heroic. The hero just did it and it was effective. It was acceptable and the hero was well thought of afterward. If enough of us find inner peace to affect the institution of television, the little child will see the hero transform the villain and bring him to a good life. He'll see the hero do something significant to serve fellow human beings. So little children will get the idea that if you want to be a hero you must help people. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Enemy flak is usually inaccurate...but when you start taking hits you'll have to call it accurate ~ Adam Makos

I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me. ~ Olivia Newton-John

The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries after that, were military campaigns sanctioned principally by the Roman Catholic Church to reclaim the Holy Land. American students barely learn about the Crusades, but they are essential to understanding the wars of the last decade. ~ Richard Engel

If you want to be clear, act. ~ Marcus Buckingham

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. ~ William E. Gladstone

Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave. ~ Friedrich Von Logau

It's lame when you try so hard to get what you want, and then when you get it, you realize you need something else even harder to get. ~ Stewart Lewis

I also feel like I've learned over the years what is not important, and that is also great: to know what is pointless to spend your energy on, to be more specific. ~ Jodie Foster

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal. ~ Jay Woodman

Actually, they fought to fill the emptiness of their lives as they filled their empty glasses. They fought - not because the liquor was in them, but because it did not fill them enough. ~ Nelson Algren