"Are you reading?" I say. It's not that I don't think Finn can read or anything, but it's just - well, not what I expected to see. I figured Finn spent his time doing whatever it is guys who aren't Josh do when they aren't in school. Burping, or something. "Try not to look so surprised," Finn says. "I read. I can count to ten. Sometimes I can even spell my own name."

-- Elizabeth Scott

#Reading Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.”

Source : "What Would Jeff and Steve Say?" by Terence Roche, gonzobanker.com. March 17, 2014.
“You do not respond to an attempt on your life with a slap on the hand. Or a joke.”
“Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.”
“My first job was in a Bohemian polka band, the Rejcek family polka band in Abbott. The old man in the band had another blacksmith shop in Abbott, but he liked me. All he had was horns and drums, and I was set up over there with my little guitar with no amps or nothing. I would play as loud as I wanted to, and nobody could hear me.”
“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death”
“I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages.”
“A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.”
“When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.”

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