Ed Gordon Quotes

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

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• There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Power
  • Leadership

• As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Job
  • Team
  • Player

• Dialogue is generally the worst choice for exposition. When you're writing lines you need to focus on the way people actually talk. And when we talk to each other we never actually explain our terms. We don't say 'Sweetheart, would you pass me the sugar bowl, which we picked up for a song at that antique stall in Munich.'

  

  Jincy Willett
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• It's always darkness before the dawn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Darkness
  • Dawn

• The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

  

  Herodotus
  • Eye
  • Witness
  • Trustworthy

• When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Climate
  • Washington
  • Cooperation

• Australia played some good cricket, but they have forgotten how to win.

  

  Nasser Hussain
  • Forgotten
  • Cricket

• Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Silent
  • Lips

• Perhaps I have made a mistake, but Heaven knows I have been faithful to my marriage vows.” She chuckled, “The more fool you!

  

  Christina Stead
  • Marriage
  • Mistake
  • Made

• Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.

  

  Debra Evans
  • Identity
  • Discovered
  • Mother`s

• ...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.

  

  David Abram
  • World
  • Character
  • Imagination

• Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • Traveling
  • Motive
  • Trip

• The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs.

  

  Karl Ernst von Baer
  • Development
  • Capable
  • Fundamentals

• The importance of heart health became very real for me when my father died of heart disease seven years ago. Having experienced the loss first hand, I am inspired to do everything I can to break the cycle and prevent families from losing loved ones to this preventable disease.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Inspired

• Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

  

  David Graham Phillips
  • Lawyer
  • Possible
  • Exchange

• I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • Woman
  • Years
  • Actress

• I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

  

  Ed Gordon
  • I Hope
  • Grown