R. G. LeTourneau Quotes

The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

R. G. LeTourneau

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• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Think
  • Reading

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Life
  • Look
  • Regrets

• You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Time
  • Character
  • Experience

• I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Think
  • Spring
  • Makeup

• I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Culture
  • First
  • Deal

• I'm a writer first and a singer second.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • First
  • Writer
  • Singer

• 'I guess I make things that need energy stronger. I'm like a walking battery.' 'You're the table everyone wants at Starbucks,' Gansey mused as he began to walk again. Blue blinked. 'What?' Over his shoulder, Gansey said, 'Next to the wall plug.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Energy
  • Walking
  • Wall

• I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

  

  Donald O'Connor
  • Good
  • Remember

• When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

  

  Adrian Tomine

• He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Changed

• This team has done something the past two days that should go down in history as an incredible accomplishment. And what David Ortiz has done is miraculous. He's carried us on his shoulders.

  

  Gabe Kapler
  • History
  • Team
  • Accomplishment

• The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • Joy
  • Accomplishment