Mark Skousen Quotes

If you subscribe to any online service, whether it be AOL, Google, Yahoo, or the Huffington Post, have you noticed that you are forced to watch a seemingly endless ad before the video story appears about a news item that caught your eye? AOL and the Huffington Post are especially annoying.

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Focused
  • Since
  • Mechanics

• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

  

  Usher
  • May
  • Success
  • Vision

• Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Community
  • Value

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • Own
  • Tragedy
  • September

• There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Guy
  • Mean
  • Politics

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Law
  • Focus

• Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

  

  Larry Page
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Need

• That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Art

• There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

  

  Zac Posen
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Mother
  • Words

• I've always felt that acting is acting, at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Believe
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Perfect
  • Magic

• I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Life
  • Long
  • Mind

• Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored, and decommissioned in various ways.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Taken
  • Service

• If you subscribe to any online service, whether it be AOL, Google, Yahoo, or the Huffington Post, have you noticed that you are forced to watch a seemingly endless ad before the video story appears about a news item that caught your eye? AOL and the Huffington Post are especially annoying.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Service
  • Annoying