Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
BUCKMINSTER FULLERCricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
More 3rd Baron Mancroft, Benjamin Mancroft Quotes
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The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.
JOHN STEINBECK -
The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON -
In my mind, there isn’t as much of a distinction between documentary and fiction as there is between a good movie and a bad one.
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI -
Ugly is attractive. Ugly is exciting.
MIUCCIA PRADA -
I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever.
AGNES VARDA -
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
BRIAN ENO -
I’m constantly thinking.
KENDRICK LAMAR -
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.
BOONAA MOHAMMED -
I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn’t do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?
BILL AYERS -
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.
A. J. JACOBS -
The love of study is in us the only lasting passion. All the others quit us in proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its ruins.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU -
Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
VOLTAIRE -
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
BETTY FORD -
In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.
ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY