At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader’s head. With a third, he landed on the stage. Carlo Collodi Read Quote
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don’t know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning. Sam Walton Read Quote
As I walked down the street while talking on the phone, sophisticated New Yorkers gaped at the sight of someone actually moving around while making a phone call. Remember that in 1973, there weren’t cordless telephones, let alone cellular phones. Martin Cooper Read Quote
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don’t apologize. Don’t lose yourself in another person’s life. Pepa Read Quote
I’m really fortunate because, in my career, I haven’t had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I’m not. Miranda Lambert Read Quote
In the story I eventually called ‘Archangel’ and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier. Andrea Barrett Read Quote
It’s very hard to find someone who’s successful and dislikes what they do. Malcolm Gladwell Read Quote