Frank Quattrone Quotes

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• They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • Future
  • Hunting
  • Engage

• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Past
  • Me
  • Joy

• When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • School
  • Book
  • Mother

• No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Great
  • Money
  • Success

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Democrats hate America being a world power because world power gives power to the nation instead of to Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Power
  • America

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Secrets

• Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Personality

• In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Flying

• For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Hate

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Business

• How could you disguise your own thoughts so even you didn't know what you were thinking?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts

• P. 25.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• I recalled the ants I had watched as a child on the farm, building their hills one grain of sand at a time, only to have them senselessly destroyed in an instant by a passing foot. I'd pieced my life together the same way, slowly and agonizingly. Would it, too, be kicked callously into dust?

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• For to me, this word Art, in its largest sense, signifies those who take pleasure in their work... Artist-carpenters who adjust with joy dovetails and mortises; artist-masons who handle lovingly their trowels; artist-cab drivers, proud of treating their horses humanely-what an ideal state of society that would be.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Art
  • Society

• My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.

  

  Alex O'Loughlin

• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

  

  Plutarch
  • Earth

• I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

  

  Joely Fisher
  • Happy
  • Mom
  • Path

• If somebody asked for the first draft of something I'd written, it'd probably be pretty close to whatever got published. I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• He looked good, like sin in a suit.

  

  Melissa Marr
  • Sin
  • Suits

• We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

  

  Frank Quattrone