Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz -
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus -
You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale -
Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
Beck Bennett -
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
E. Franklin Frazier
-
I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray -
Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
Larry Cohen -
My mum told me once I was a Hindu.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
Lana Turner -
I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
Aaron Ruell -
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick deWitt
-
In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
Naomi Klein -
China has become a major presence for most countries around the world but notably for its neighboring countries in Asia. So I think it is a common position for Japan and its Asian neighbors that we certainly would strive to maintain as much as possible friendly relations with China.
Naoto Kan -
I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.
Yukihiro Matsumoto -
I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.
Barry Diller -
Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
Mac DeMarco -
Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
Maggie Gallagher
-
You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast/You can make the most of the distance/First you need endurance/First you've got to last.
Neil Peart Rush -
Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.
Napoleon Hill -
It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.
Ed Diener -
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris