William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
William J. H. Boetcker
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
Gary Jennings
I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
Sam Hunt
Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
Fatos Nano
If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
P. J. O'Rourke
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
Vera Farmiga
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was just incredible. He's such a soulful, kind guy, and he gives great advice. And he also scares me a lot. He does a lot of pranks.
Rachel Platten
Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
Cameron Mathison
I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
Natasha Tsakos
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Yotam Ottolenghi
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Walter Benjamin
VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
Astro Teller
I was raised by my grandparents, and they always made sure that I had a pencil and some paper, whether we were in the car or at a restaurant. While they were enjoying a nice meal, I would be sitting there drawing funny pictures of the waitress.
Jarrett J. Krosoczka
I know how to write. So I am not totally at the mercy of filmmakers, but it's not a bad point.
Sarah Silverman
What the carburetor, sparkplug and self-starter are to an automobile, initiative, private enterprise and executive ability are to industry as a whole, including the wage earner, wage payer, wage spender and wage saver, i.e., the investor. If the sparkplug and self-starter get out of commission, the car will come to a standstill.
William J. H. Boetcker
