I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski...
AMY PURDY My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, t...
AMY PURDY When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very...
AMY PURDY For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.
AMY PURDY Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveli...
AMY PURDY In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rat...
AMY PURDY Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.
AMY PURDY We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.
AMY PURDY I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values an...
AMY PURDY The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over...
AMY PURDY I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on t...
AMY PURDY Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also becom...
AMY PURDY I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me some...
AMY PURDY In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame i...
AMY PURDY Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we w...
AL PURDY In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
AL PURDY I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
AL PURDY I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
AL PURDY I started writing when I was about thirteen.
AL PURDY I don't think I do have a soul.
AL PURDY For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triump...
AL PURDY At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL PURDY 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL PURDY Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by the...
LAWSON PURDY Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by ...
LAWSON PURDY We have a significant cyber risk in this country.
ANDY PURDY The challenges are significant, but we believe we're making progress.
ANDY PURDY We have to raise the bar (about security). This is the challenge.
ANDY PURDY We have to send a message that the risk is real. Chief executives no longer have to rest assured tha...
ANDY PURDY That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was ...
BRANDY PURDY All servers have equal access to the data; our job is to keep the applications crunching on data and...
CAMERON PURDY If we can't find ways for people to get rich [in software development], we're not going to attract t...
CAMERON PURDY The number of things that we count as free today that used to cost money [such as TCP/IP] are quite ...
CAMERON PURDY It's a pretty amazing jump technologically for us.
CAMERON PURDY We did what we call the Work Manager where the data grid is tied around particular data. Think of it...
CAMERON PURDY He was always mindful of keeping his spirits in check lest they soar unreasonably high.
KEVIN PURDY I think this money is owed and due to the students in terms of scholarships of reduced interest rate...
ALLAN PURDY I don't think that it's a big enough financial issue that they can't come to a decision by now.
ALLAN PURDY We're a better team than our record shows. As we start to see some pitching, I know we can win some ...
BROOKS PURDY You can't really make any excuses. But it's tough when you can't see any live pitching in practice a...
BROOKS PURDY The legend of Decimus Croome seemed to expand like a parasitic beast feeding off the lifeblood of th...
KEVIN PURDY Not all phones have high resolution images or video capability so [Magnolia's] chipset isn't going t...
GERRY PURDY Teens and college-aged kids are the biggest purchasers of mobile content, yet they lack a way to pro...
GERRY PURDY With 10MB of flash, users will have the ability to store and update locally referenced information, ...
GERRY PURDY When you look at IBM over the last few years, a high-end ThinkPad used to be at $7,500. Now, the ent...
GERRY PURDY A significant portion of the more than 25 million mobile professionals have a need for universal acc...
GERRY PURDY Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the pr...
GERRY PURDY This plethora of devices will make it challenging for each of us to try and figure out what's the ri...
GERRY PURDY I understand he's really slowing down, but at 94, he's still an amazing guy.
TED PURDY No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has a...
GERRY PURDY Pish-posh and poppycock!!" Croome grumbled.
KEVIN PURDY Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)
ALEXIA PURDY Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
JAMES PURDY She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
JAMES PURDY Coyotes do view small animals as prey - small cats or small breed dogs may be attractive to the coyo...
ELETTA PURDY We have no connection between that person and this attack.
ELETTA PURDY I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
AL PURDY I don't think I do have a soul.
AL PURDY At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL PURDY He hated autumn, he hated Halloween and he despised uncooperative household fixtures.
KEVIN PURDY Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.
KEVIN PURDY 'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL PURDY A lot of it is not the actual crime, it's the fear of crime. So we need to keep that in perspective ...
DAVID PURDY It also makes sense that there would be a shared arrangement for a state-of-art septic system with b...
DAVID PURDY Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got ‘em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could ...
JAMES PURDY Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads ...
JAMES PURDY You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog and it keeps a run...
KATHY PURDY Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them and are more likely to document their garden's pro...
KATHY PURDY You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog, and it keeps a ru...
KATHY PURDY Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them, and are more likely to document their garden's pr...
KATHY PURDY You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog and it keeps a run...
KATHY PURDY You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog, and it keeps a ru...
KATHY PURDY My ultimate goal is to be a doctor, and you have to know how to run a business if you're going to be...
JUSTIN PURDY The mentality we have, that whatever we think we can do, we can, that creates a whole culture on the...
JUSTIN PURDY Last year, Australia won. This year, the Malaysian team is really strong. So it's not just a given t...
JUSTIN PURDY He was working right until the last few days. He was a very active mind.
KIRK PURDY Let me tell you, he was a very fair, very shrewd, very bright, very friend, very family-oriented. He...
KIRK PURDY There has been some money taken off the commodities table as a whole in the last couple of days. Two...
MICHAEL PURDY I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The...
AMY GRANT It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old...
AMY GRANT You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea...
AMY GRANT Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we pla...
AMY GRANT The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
AMY GRANT Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd ...
AMY GRANT I think for a woman, the hardest thing about growing old is becoming invisible. There's somethin...
AMY GRANT Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much ...
AMY GRANT I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced...
AMY GRANT There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There's not a timetable.
AMY GRANT I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just e...
AMY GRANT There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature...
AMY GRANT The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.
AMY GRANT But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with comp...
AMY GRANT I think our culture encourages all of us to always put our best foot forward. I think it's a goo...
AMY GRANT Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the C...
AMY GRANT Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect,...
AMY GRANT Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
AMY GRANT Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends...
AMY GRANT Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's sh...
AMY GRANT I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.
AMY LEE I think the days of putting your feet up when you're pregnant are long gone. Women who are nine ...
AMY POEHLER Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi...
AMY BLOOM Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conqu...
AMY CHUA Get outside. Watch the sunrise. Watch the sunset. How does that make you feel? Does it make you feel...
AMY GRANT My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset...
AMY BLOOM Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
AMY WINEHOUSE These people are the air I breathe and the blood I bleed. They are my courage. I will not let them d...
AMY EWING I think you can do anything you put your mind to
AMY EWING It would be easier to forget you," he says to me, "and these past few weeks we've had together. It w...
AMY EWING Violet’s eyes meet mine. I give her a look that tries to say, “What is wrong with these people?
AMY EWING Hope is a precious thing, isn’t it,” she says. “And yet, we don’t really appreciate it until...
AMY EWING Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL I’ve swapped disco lights for celestial lights but I’m still surrounded by dancers. I am orbited...
AMY LIPTROT I feel like for me the lyric writing really comes from just what's going on in my heart and that...
AMY LEE China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined ...
AMY CHUA In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares...
AMY POEHLER The days of waiting for an outer authority to sanction your life path are over. Follow what matters ...
AMY MCTEAR After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off...
AMY YASBECK Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the roll...
AMY HECKERLING Look at Jane Lynch, another Chicagoan. She has a career I'd kill for. She does amazing work; she...
AMY LANDECKER Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz ...
AMY WINEHOUSE Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and...
AMY ALCOTT Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
AMY BLOOM The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
AMY VANDERBILT Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If w...
AMY VANDERBILT I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularl...
AMY VANDERBILT Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior....
AMY VANDERBILT When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
AMY RYAN Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power an...
AMY CUDDY Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put i...
AMY HECKERLING If a politician isn't doing it to his wife , then he's doing it to his country.
AMY GRANT My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me (Tan is the author of what became T...
AMY TAN My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
AMY JACKSON It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks...
AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT They just looked up and there she was.
AMY VANDERBILT All books are either dreams or swords.
AMY LOWELL Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
AMY LOWELL My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in ...
AMY ADAMS Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I hav...
AMY ADAMS I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don't know what I...
AMY WINEHOUSE When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smi...
AMY GRANT In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are al...
AMY LOWELL All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words.
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason w...
AMY LOWELL There are few things so futile, and few so amusing, As a peaceful and purposeless sort of perusing O...
AMY LOWELL For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason ...
AMY LOWELL You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
AMY LOWELL Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind...
AMY LOWELL I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink dr...
AMY LOWELL Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that's like saying yo...
AMY TAN We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change ...
AMY TAN Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or sooth...
AMY GERSTLER Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his ...
AMY SEDARIS Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place ...
AMY PLUM God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el...
AMY CARMICHAEL Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ...
AMY SEDARIS You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
AMY BLOOM However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just c...
AMY POEHLER I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ...
AMY POEHLER I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving ...
AMY ENGEL Share your voice and your heart. Listen to how it falls in with the cosmic symphony. Let it be imper...
AMY MCTEAR You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
AMY CARMICHAEL Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
AMY TAN Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not mere...
AMY VANDERBILT Even Pain pricks to livelier living.
AMY LOWELL If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
AMY TAN In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
AMY TAN Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
AMY TAN We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may ne...
AMY VANDERBILT Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
AMY LOWELL Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pre...
AMY CARMICHAEL A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
AMY LOWELL Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
AMY LOWELL Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
AMY LOWELL Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely...
AMY VANDERBILT Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL No animal is so inexhaustable as an excited infant.
AMY LESLIE Your true life is the one that would be the greatest gift you could give to others.
AMY MCTEAR Frugality without creativity is deprivation.
AMY DACYCZYN Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...
AMY LOWELL Memory feeds imagination.
AMY TAN You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!
AMY TAN Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it ...
AMY LEE I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have mor...
AMY KLOBUCHAR I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance a...
AMY KLOBUCHAR There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have...
AMY LEE Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's n...
AMY LEE When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8...
AMY ROBACH I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried pr...
AMY WALDMAN I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had w...
AMY CHUA Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me th...
AMY WALDMAN