Emmory Simmons Quotes

There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. ~ Dan Simmons

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?" ~ Richard Simmons

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life. ~ Ruth Simmons

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it? ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really work in the long run. Who are you competing against? It's you. You need to be doing this for you and only you. ~ Richard Simmons

Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san ~ Dan Simmons

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak. ~ Heather Simmons

Always wear sunscreen and wash your makeup off at night. ~ Gail Simmons

asked me if I loved him. Should've told him the truth. That I ain't know enough about myself to love anybody. That I wasn't even sure I had it in me. Maybe folks were born with a specific reserve of love inside them and maybe mine was all used up. But instead of saying any of that I just said, "'Of course I do. ~ D. Bryant Simmons

Republican-controlled bank in the city. Plenty of Republicans were inherently suspicious of banks, but many would welcome the opportunity to use one that didn't require them to get into bed with their political enemies. Hamilton was infuriated when he realized how Burr had used him. Once the company had received its charter, it abandoned all pretense of providing the city with clean water, instead laying in a pipe system that transported the contaminated well water around the city. This incident perhaps marked the turning point in Hamilton's relationship with Burr; friendly despite their political differences, the most famous duel in American history lay in their future, and only one of them would survive it. The ~ Michael W. Simmons

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education. ~ Gail Simmons

The cruciform does not like pain. Nor do I but, like the cruciform, I am willing to use it to serve my purposes. And I will do so consciously, not instinctively like the mindless mass of alien tissue embedded in me. This thing only seeks a mindless avoidance of death by any means. I do not wish to die, but I welcome pain and death rather than an eternity of mindless life. Life is sacred--I still hold to that as a core element of the Church's though and teachings these past twenty-eight hundred years when life has been so cheap--but even more sacred is the soul.
I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so--but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ. It must go into the darkness not willingly but well--bravely and firm of faith--like the millions who have gone before us, keeping faith with all those generations facing death in the isolated silence of death camps and nuclear fireballs and cancer wards and pogroms, going into the darkness, if not hopefully, then prayerful that there is some reason for it all, something worth the price of all that pain, all those sacrifices., All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or the all too shakable conviction of faith. And if the ~ Dan Simmons

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'. ~ Charles Simmons

He smiled - that small, secret smile he saved just for me. ~ Kristen Simmons

Edouard, I have spent so many hours wrestling with my faith - my lack of faith - but now, in this fearful corner of an all but forgotten world, riddled as I am with this loathsome parasite, I have somehow rediscovered a strength of belief the likes of which I have not known since you and I were boys. I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it. Day ~ Dan Simmons

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. ~ Russell Simmons

I run a bunch of charities and I say this line to people: 'I am somebody who has always been helped.' A little thing like that can make people believe it. ~ Russell Simmons

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. ~ Dan Simmons

That's all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of Abraham! ~ Dan Simmons

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child. ~ Gail Simmons

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. ~ Charles Simmons

I fail all of the time. It means nothing. ~ Gene Simmons

Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart. ~ Jenny B. Jones

I sort of think of myself as part priest, part clown. ~ Richard Simmons

I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza? ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I'm not into any show that makes people compete when they lose weight. ~ Richard Simmons

Mark Twain once opined in his homey way: "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. ~ Dan Simmons

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. ~ Richard Simmons

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. ~ Dan Simmons

At some point you have to toss aside the things and people that don't work and JUST. BUILD. YOUR. EMPIRE. ~ Travis Simmons

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on. ~ Richard Simmons

I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place. ~ Russell Simmons

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. ~ Rob Simmons