Arthur Brisbane Quotes

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Barack Obama
  • Obama
  • Barack

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Time
  • Live
  • Women

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Simple
  • Sound
  • Digital

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Girl
  • Feel
  • Fat

• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Point
  • Breaking
  • No Point

• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Success
  • Wisdom

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• I was deposed in association with a case involving the Golden Venture, a ship which smuggled Chinese aliens into the United States about eight or nine ago.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Chinese
  • Ship
  • Golden

• I think that the best that government can do for you and I as individuals is to empower you and I to make decisions that only you and I should make.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Best
  • Decisions

• There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • High
  • Skin
  • Treatment

• I know that in my own personal life, the people who I have dated who are funny can get away with a lot more than the people who aren't.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• No, I'm so well-known at home I think they think of me like a piece of comfortable furniture that's always been around that they're not going to throw out.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Home
  • Think
  • Like

• I had fans, and the industry and everybody saying, 'Keep the Righteous Brothers going; keep the music alive,' and I really didn't want to do that. I had sung with a couple of guys who would supposedly be really good Bobby Hatfields, and I thought, 'Oh geez, it's really anti-climatic.'

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Couple

• It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

  

  Arthur Golden
  • Writing
  • American
  • Past

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • True
  • Nice
  • Conversation

• Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Different
  • Practice

• Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.

  

  Arthur Brisbane
  • Time
  • Success
  • Moment