Arlene Blum Quotes

You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

Arlene Blum

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• If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Future
  • Success
  • Confidence

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Want
  • Talent

• What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Know

• I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Night
  • Weird
  • Books

• We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • See
  • Anyone

• Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.

  

  Ram Dass

• Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • War
  • Death

• The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.

  

  Quintilian

• He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Rebel

• If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Good
  • Women
  • Dream

• I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Time
  • She
  • Character

• And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.

  

  Kurt Masur
  • Strong

• There'd be days in high school where I thought I played well, my team got the win, and I'd go to the gym still in my uniform, and my dad would say, 'C'mon, let's go. We have more work to do.'

  

  Jalen Brunson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I would love to work with Marion Cotillard... and my sister! I've never worked with Dakota before in a movie. It'd be so cool to be on screen interacting with each other one day. It will happen, I'm just not sure when.

  

  Elle Fanning
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Cool

• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Culture

• I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Know
  • Play

• At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Friends
  • Mad
  • Monster

• True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Boundaries
  • True Love

• Son, if the mountain were smooth, you couldn't climb it.

  

  Wintley Phipps
  • Mountain
  • Climb
  • Smooth

• You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away.

  

  Arlene Blum
  • Mountain
  • Conquer
  • Footprints