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

• No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Military
  • Police

• Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say.

  

  George Eliot
  • Anxiety
  • Perception
  • Hold

• A memorial garden will be tacky. We should put the money into supporting things that Diana did and was interested in.

  

  Brian Sewell
  • Money
  • Things
  • Diana

• [Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth

• We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • World
  • Looks
  • Perception

• Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.

  

  Harry Johnston
  • Event
  • Asia
  • Human Species

• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • Writers