It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man’s interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. Anthony Trollope Read Quote
If someone said, ‘You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you’ve got to do is sing for us,’ I would do that. That’s more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you’re going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line. Jackson Browne Read Quote
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks’ imports. Manmohan Singh Read Quote
My idea of hell is to sit with a pair of curling tongs or have my hair blow-dried: I fidget like a 12-year-old boy. Sue Perkins Read Quote
Talk to me,’ it’s what you say to someone to let them know you’re there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life. Kevin McHale Read Quote
In the ’50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known. Kenneth Noland Read Quote
This game we play is the ultimate total team game. Quarterback by himself isn’t winning it. You got 11-12 coaches, you’ve got a lot of people that have a hand in it. Bob Stoops Read Quote
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. James Gray Read Quote
Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state – the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. Jan Koum Read Quote
Nobody wants to make me a rich man. In fact, most people want to make me a very poor man. I can guarantee some people fantasize at night about how poor they can make me. James Altucher Read Quote
