James Clavell Quotes

So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

James Clavell

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• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Me
  • Scare

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Long
  • Mind
  • King

• Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Proud

• As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Famous

• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • You
  • Sports
  • Professional

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Decisions
  • Tools
  • Data

• I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • World
  • Eyes

• In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Kind
  • Experiences
  • Shock

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Need
  • Nuts
  • Psychiatrist

• Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

  

  C. Douglas Payne
  • Women
  • Why

• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Food
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• We always had power shortages in the country. I was living right next to the border with China, and it was the only country I could compare to my own. When I looked across the river, it was a completely different world - there were no people dying. It looked like a place full of colour, and that's what confused me.

  

  Lee Hyeon-seo
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Power
  • Remember

• So much wealth and so much power, Armstrong thought, yet with a little luck, we can bring you down like Humpty-Dumpty...

  

  James Clavell
  • Power
  • Luck