Jerry Costello Quotes

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

Jerry Costello

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Innovation
  • New
  • Disappear

• The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Platform

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Experience
  • Technology
  • Issue

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • World
  • Night
  • Myself

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Money
  • Change
  • Door

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Truth
  • Health
  • Truth Is

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Lot

• I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Deal
  • Quarterback
  • Sacking

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• ...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Long
  • Together

• Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • People

• I love to see new things, and I love to learn. I always learn so much when I travel - that's the best thing.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Love
  • Best
  • Travel

• If you hear Thelonious Monk play a run that goes from the top of the piano, OK, he has opened up the Grand Canyon with that. He's the river that's carved this entire space that we call the Grand Canyon. He does that with one run. He lets you know, like, what the possibility of the sound of the piano can do.

  

  Jason Moran
  • Up
  • Space
  • River

• All things come into being through opposition and all are in flux like a river.

  

  Heraclitus
  • River
  • Opposition
  • All Things

• Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Travel
  • River