Harry S Truman Quotes
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Quotes to Explore
-
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
-
The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
-
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
-
I am just one human being.
-
Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
-
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
-
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
-
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
-
Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
-
I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
-
With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.
-
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
-
When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.
-
Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.
-
More and more people are seeing the films on computers - lousy sound, lousy picture - and they think they've seen the film, but they really haven't.
-
I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
-
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
-
I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.
-
I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
-
I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.
-
To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
-
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-
I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
-
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
