Malcolm Forbes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
-
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
-
That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
-
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
-
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
-
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
-
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
-
I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
-
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
-
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
-
Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
-
When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
-
There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
-
Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
-
I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
-
There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
-
Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
-
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
-
I'd like to be curvier.
-
Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
-
I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
-
The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
