Sara Sheridan Quotes

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• Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Time
  • Will
  • Agenda

• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Power
  • Guitar

• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

  

  Asafa Powell

• Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they?

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Mind
  • Direction

• Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Want
  • Past
  • Brave

• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Lying
  • Mercy

• The heart of vegetarians is healed sooner than those of flesh-eaters.

  

  Virchand Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Vegetarian
  • Flesh

• We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they live decorously instead of going out and getting firsthand information about life. The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. The writer's business is to contemplate experience, not to be merged in it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

  

  William Goldman
  • Writing
  • Writers

• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Writers