Timothy Thomas Fortune Quotes

We are African in origin and American in birth.

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• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Think
  • Decision
  • Write

• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  

  Upton Sinclair
  • Man
  • Understanding
  • Salary

• The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Discovery
  • Personal

• I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Love
  • Seeing
  • Tattoos

• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Book
  • Like
  • Teacher

• There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Religion

• The government has completed the entire process to do away with interviews for lower rank jobs. There will be no requirement of interview for Group D,C and B non-gazetted posts in central government.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Process
  • Group

• The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Truth
  • Rest
  • Lies

• For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Art
  • Awesome
  • Industry

• The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

  

  Kevin James
  • Heart
  • Sea
  • Moon

• Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

  

  Zalmay Khalilzad
  • Time
  • Political
  • Effort

• You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Dream
  • Persons
  • Measure

• I'm definitely suspicious of girls. I've been suspicious of girls my whole life, though, so it's not anything new.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Whole

• A model should be as simple as it can be but no simpler.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Simple
  • Model
  • Should

• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Natural
  • Procrastination

• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Property
  • Division
  • Antagonism

• It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS, NO SURVIVORS!" in a manner that could only indicate deadly sincerity. It was seeing him happily burning and advancing that startled the Brute Squad to screaming. And once that happened, why, everybody panicked and ran.

  

  William Goldman
  • Sincerity
  • Ran
  • Survivor

• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Grandma
  • Evangelist
  • Granddad

• Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles.

  

  David Bloor
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Landscape

• We are African in origin and American in birth.

  

  Timothy Thomas Fortune
  • Birth