Bert Lance Quotes
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
Quotes to Explore
-
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
-
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
-
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
-
The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
-
I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
-
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
-
I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
-
I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
-
I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
-
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
-
I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
-
The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
-
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
-
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
-
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
-
The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
-
Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
-
I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.
-
This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
-
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
-
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
-
Even in the business department of a magazine, tech was a backwater.
-
Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.
-
The press aren't willing to wait for whatever the truth is - the truth never catches up with the lie... Destroying people ought not to be a competitive business.
