Neil Oliver Quotes
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
Neil Oliver
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During the season especially, we take a lot of swings, we play a lot of games, we swing a lot in games, batting practice, all that, so to maintain your shoulder the strongest is one of the key points that we focused on in the offseason.
Pablo Sandoval
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller
When I see something, I go for it.
Jackee Harry
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
Jack Klugman
I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
Flip Wilson
Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
Dan Jenkins
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
Carl Bernstein
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
Walt Mossberg
I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Don't talk it, walk it.
Lars Ulrich
Metallica
Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.
Albert Schweitzer
I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we also have to write about parts of our culture that are not good, that are not working out. I think it takes a new eye.
Lee Smith
I thought, 'It doesn't matter what that woman is wearing,' but then I realised actually it's our job as designers to make women smile; to bring them the chocolate without the calories.
Alber Elbaz
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.
Andy Garcia
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what a fun-loving guy Dad was, and how brooding and unhappy Mom was. The children sort of blame it all on the mother. Well, this is kind of standard and typical, and aggrieved Eleanor Roosevelt that she was not a happier mother. She wanted to be a happier mother. And I must say, she was a happier grandmother.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.
Zoe Tapper
(Talking about American and British Language) You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking 'H' in it.
Eddie Izzard
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed, there was never recourse to benefits, so if money was tight, money was tight. It taught me that we were a closed unit, and that we had to be resourceful.
Neil Oliver
