Samuel Ullman Quotes
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
Samuel Ullman
Quotes to Explore
-
We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
Lamar Alexander
-
And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
Umberto Guidoni
-
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.
Ian MacKaye
-
My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?
Rachel Bloom
-
I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
Little Richard
-
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Andy Gibb
-
Make the decision to do what Jesus Christ has asked you to do.
M. Russell Ballard
-
If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."
Quentin Crisp
-
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Napoleon Hill
-
Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
Marvin J. Ashton
-
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
Solon
-
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
John Ruskin
-
Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
Taylor Caldwell
-
Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
Jon Landau
-
I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and I think he did a couple of things as a child as an actor as well, and he... he failed, basically.
Ben Affleck
-
As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.
J. A. Jance
-
When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.
Samuel Ullman
