Joseph Conrad Quotes

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

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• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Thought
  • Design

• I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Thinking
  • House

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • You
  • Intelligent
  • Two

• I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • American
  • Man
  • Leader

• Above all, the fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers, as well as the entire franchise, deserve and need our players and coaches to dig deep within themselves.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Deep
  • Need
  • Deserve

• Ozon.ru is made up of four businesses. Ozon.ru is an online retailer, O'Courier focuses on shipping, Ozon.Travel, and our most recent acquisition, Sapato, the leading online shoe and accessory retailer.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Made

• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Oh how the VacancyLaughed at them rushing by.'Turn again, flesh and brain,Only yourselves again!How far above the apeDiffering in each shape,You with your regularMeaningless circles are!'

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Brain

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• The knowledge of past times and of the places on the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Earth

• Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospère et s'aigrit dans l'adversité.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Freedom

• The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Star

• I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.

  

  Donald Knuth
  • Important
  • Kitchen

• Some men say that they should be satisfied with the abolition of untouchability only, leaving the caste system alone. The aim of abolition of untouchability alone without trying to abolish the inequalities inherent in the caste system is a rather low aim.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Alone

• I like a man who can come out and say he's nervous on the first date. I think that would be really cute.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Cute

• I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Child

• It had need to beeA wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

  

  John Heywood

• Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.

  

  Joseph Conrad
  • Men
  • Woman
  • Dealings