Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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• Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Fight
  • Security
  • Turn

• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Power
  • Become
  • Far

• 'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Different

• To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Help
  • Information
  • Yoga

• Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Reality
  • Make A Difference

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Hell

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • City
  • Moments

• Don't think of yourself as a woman in business.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Business
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Success
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Character
  • You
  • Doing

• I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Takes

• I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Image
  • Decided
  • Publicity

• The phrase ‘marriage market’ is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured.

  

  Gary Becker

• I’d always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn’t even put her in the oven.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • History

• If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Sacrifice
  • France
  • Judged

• The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • People
  • World
  • Evil

• But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Country
  • Intellectual
  • Italy

• I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Work
  • Song

• It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee