17 Quotes by Jon Davis

Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.

ForgetThe honors handed out, the lists of winners.Forget the certificates, bright trophies youCould have, should have, maybe won.Remind yourself you never wanted them.When the spotlight briefly shone on you,You stepped back into darkness,Let the empty stage receive the light,The black floor suddenly less black—Scuff-marks, dust, blue tape—the coneOf light so perfect, slicing silently that perfectSilent darkness, and you, hidden in that wider dark,Your refusal a kind of gratitude at last.

I guess this is a prayer to the unsettled arc of mortality, the hoist and shuffle of this uncertain moment, our lives like bulbs flaring and going out as the city's seven million souls--ah, but that's another argument--click out their bedside lamps and curl toward whatever approximation of warmth they have found, while the music plays on in the streets below, the neon humming, the ambulances wailing the sudden shocked song of the living.

With those temperatures, there's no wide-spread damage across large acres of groves, but there's potentially spotty damage in the hours that temperatures are in the mid-20s. There certainly is a risk of damage later this week.

He is coming home in March for a wedding, then going back to Iraq. I feel that he's the best uncle ever.

We provide everything students need: knowledge, equipment; we've got it all.

This recognition is validation that MATRIX places strong emphasis on building a workplace that attracts and retains the best people in our business. By providing a desirable work environment with an emphasis on work-life balance, we enable our employees to perform their best in delivering superior service to our customers. Investing in our people and culture is smart business as it ensures the continued success of our company.

We are an environmental organization. We do anything we can to lessen our impact.

On Thursday morning if it's delayed, we get bombarded (with calls) -- which, to us, sometimes seems crazy. But this has been a very sensitive winter. We try to get it into everyone's hands at the same time.