Mark Helprin Quotes

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

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• We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Regret

• I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Trying
  • Anything
  • Tricky

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Care

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• I love guys like Charlie Parker.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Love
  • Like
  • I Love

• Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Religion
  • Selfish
  • Own

• I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Dad
  • Actor
  • Problems

• I love to smile.

  

  Inge de Bruijn
  • Love
  • Smile
  • I Love

• Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • School
  • Hotel

• I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Honor
  • Win
  • Fame

• The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Problem
  • Driving

• If you go to prison, your child support adds up.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Support
  • Child

• My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Long
  • Home
  • Same

• What's my favourite food? One you order out.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • You
  • Food
  • Favourite

• It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Find

• Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Environment
  • Woman

• If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Mistakes

• Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Leadership

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • People
  • Mind
  • Nasty

• Any church may have a mighty man of God for its pastor, if it is willing to pay the price, and that price is not a big salary, but great praying.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Great
  • God
  • Men

• Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Hope
  • Memory
  • Evidence

• Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

  

  Mark Helprin