Michael Ashcroft Quotes
If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
I'm very independent.
-
I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
-
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
-
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
-
I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
-
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
-
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
-
That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
-
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
-
In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
-
We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
-
The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
-
I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
-
I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
-
We don't know who John Brown was, and in many ways, his work shaped where we are today. He was a Pennsylvanian. He was the prototypical Yankee who fought back and suffered in doing so.
-
I might have lost an acquaintance because of 'Pregnant Women Are Smug.' But we weren't close. Actually, I don't know if the woman knows the song is about her. I have a feeling she might.
-
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.
-
If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.
