Francis Lee Quotes

I would love to have played with David Silva.

Francis Lee

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Good
  • Game
  • Education

• The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Football
  • Watch

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Family
  • Job

• If I am incompetent, I am useless, the people of India will see that.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • India
  • Useless
  • Incompetent

• It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Important
  • Ideas

• People have paid for content. They always have.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Always
  • Content

• In a world with many blockchains and hundreds of tradable tokens built on top of them, entire industries are automated through software, venture capital and stock markets are circumvented, entrepreneurship is streamlined, and networks gain sovereignty through their own digital currency. This is the next phase of the Internet.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Internet
  • Stock

• Like materialism, consumerism and socialism, transnationalism suffers from the same fatal flaw. It feeds the body and starves the soul. And eventually bored people hear the old calls again.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Soul
  • Bored

• You worldly-minded people are most unfortunate! You are surrounded with sorrows and troubles overhead and underfoot and to the right and to the left, and you are enigmas even to yourselves.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People

• I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Wish

• The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

  

  Dean Ween
  • Fishing

• A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

  

  Matthew Stover
  • Life
  • Relationship

• We have discussed the principles today, ... Now we will start to go to the practice.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Today
  • Practice
  • Discussed

• There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate. She is coming, my dove, my dear; She is coming, my life, my fate; The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;" And the white rose weeps, "She is late;" The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;" And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Fate
  • Rose
  • Tear

• Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.

  

  Andrew-Lee Potts
  • Hero

• I would love to have played with David Silva.

  

  Francis Lee