S.L. Ross Quotes

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

I always get very fit if I'm going away filming for two months in Afghanistan or wherever.

Oh yeah, I'm an Essex boy and proud of it.

I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it our ourselves.

We're all in the game. We all drive cars, and we're all hooked on oil. The question is how we can get unhooked before we drown in the stuff.

Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.

Beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.

Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Allah Akbar! and there is no god but God!

Im looking for a girl who's fun to be around.

If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

"You're really not that old." You know, the old grandpa thing - Grandpa Rossy with KB [Kris Bryant] and Rizz [Anthony Rizzo]. That's how everyone treats me.

I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.

It tickles me, my daughter said that to me. She said, "Mommie, why is it that every time they say your name they put your age right behind it?"

I jog and I roller-skate. I dance - that's the best exercise.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what’s paying the most money or what’s most popular.

Attention is the opium of the people

Don't think I'm not incoheret.

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

Maybe I'm corny, but I'm a big believer in second chances.

I had a life experience that most of my - that none of my friends had. I remember I became everybody's rabbi. Everybody who needed advice would talk to me, and it became an obvious thing.

I've always found ideas everywhere, but my favorite place is Nordstrom, because of their liberal return policies for those ideas that don't work out.

I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.

I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

In remaking the world in the likeness of a steam-heated, air-conditioned metropolis of apartment buildings we have violated one of our essential attributes-our kinship with nature.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

Written reports stifle creativity.

Being completely in control is a fantasy.

My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.

Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.