John Jacob Astor Quotes
The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.John Jacob Astor
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P. G. Wodehouse -
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
Idina Menzel -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
I'm still learning my craft.
Yann Martel -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
Gabriel Iglesias -
Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
Adam McKay -
Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
Patrick Wilson -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
Hamid Karzai -
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
R. Kelly -
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
Inara George -
A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
E. M. Forster -
Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
Yves Behar -
There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
Tariq Ali
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London -
Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.
Nandan Nilekani -
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Quentin Tarantino -
The smell of shrimp is comforting.
Lennon Parham -
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.
Frank Gehry -
The gateway to China will be from the northwest. My plans were correct. Time will vindicate my reasoning.
John Jacob Astor