George Kaiser Quotes
During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
Quotes to Explore
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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God is in the details.
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Races didn't bother the Americans. They were something a lot better than any race. They were a People. They were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created People in the history of the world. And their manners were their own business. And so were their politics. And so, but ten times so, were their souls.
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Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
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My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
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That's the biggest rule in Hollywood: Don't spend your own money.
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Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.
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I've been dying to go to India, especially to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. I've also heard Bollywood town's a lot of fun!
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I am very flattered that so many people loved 'Chasing Dreams.'
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Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
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Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
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Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
