"Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don't weigh them down like a sack full of stones"

--

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.164, Wendy Lamb Books

Dana Reinhardt

#Stones Quotes #Lifts Quotes

“I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.”
“To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.”
“Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.”
“Because no matter how much money we spend there [in Iraq], as long as the people there see this money as... as assistance that is unwelcome, as long as they continue to be humiliated in their own country by us... I mean, the future looked bleak, and the future after that was in fact very bleak.”
“If you don't gamble, you'll never win.”
“It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.”
“There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.”

Source : "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" . by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.
“I think America needs us. 'Duck Dynasty' has given some hope to bringing the family back. I want to set that example.”

You may also like:

Chris Crutcher
Novelist
E. Lockhart
Writer
Jordan Sonnenblick
Writer
Justina Chen
Writer
Nancy Werlin
Writer
Rachel Cohn
Author
Sara Zarr
Writer
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Author