S.L. Ross Quotes

I have an electric Fender and a Telecaster. I have a Taylor and a Martin. I want to get more guitars for more sounds.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.

We have to succeed, so we will.

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.

Beautiful light is born of a contrast to darkness.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored.

True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehensions as well as physical perception.

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.

One-time revenue spikes that aren't repeatable won't help you achieve consistent year-after-year growth.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

I think you tell the story that has to be told. You tell the story that's the truth. You tell the story that readers will be interested in and should know about.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

Architects need to restore and protect.

I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't want to say I like it too much but it's fun having a gun on you and getting to manhandle men.

I don't see myself becoming a superhero.

I've never been a good hitter.

Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act.

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Already I notice a feeling of 'If this be sociology, Good Lord deliver us.' However sociology has endured many things like it and my faith in its ultimate triumph never wavers.

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

God, how I have wasted my life.

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.

I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy.

Death is the great transition.

My baby love and I are ENGAGED!!!