Bert Lance Quotes
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
Bert Lance
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
Usain Bolt
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher
After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
J. C. Watts
I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
Yami Gautam
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian
'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
Iggy Azalea
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
Ferran Adria
The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't mind anybody coming after me as long as they're coming with facts.
Nelson Peltz
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
Jean Dujardin
Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.
Frank Zappa
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
C. S. Lewis
Riesling? It smells like an intensive care ward.
Jim Harrison
If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'
Bert Lance
