There was a period of time early in my career where I was like, ‘I’m gonna definitely fight. I definitely want to be a part of this lifestyle.’ Then there was a period of time where I had so much success in the sport of wrestling, and I was like, ‘I don’t really need fighting.’ Jordan Burroughs Read Quote
But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. Donald G. Mitchell Read Quote
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. Casey Stengel Read Quote
I love independent film so much, and that’s kind of where I made my mark. Billy Bob Thornton Read Quote
How much is an hour of your time worth? It’s worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It’s whatever your salary works out to per hour. Emily Oster Read Quote
Virgil Flowers fishes in the St. Croix where I fish for muskies near my house. John Sandford Read Quote
Whiplash’ was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I’d been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that’s the one that wound up getting made. Damien Chazelle Read Quote
