Charles Finch Quotes

When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

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• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Bigger
  • Thrill

• The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • May
  • Death

• I am totally a fringe candidate, and so is Bill Weld: you know, two Republican governors serving in heavily blue states, outspoken, small government guys, outspoken on the social liberal side. We're fringe, totally. We're fringe.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Republican
  • Candidate

• Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Just
  • Go
  • Pants

• The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Human
  • Race
  • Extinction

• When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Black

• Patience is the secret to good food.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Food
  • Patience

• You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Great
  • Job
  • Law

• The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Rest
  • Authority
  • Analysis

• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  

  Jay Leno
  • Men
  • Religious
  • Wise

• It took me 13 years to win a Super Bowl. But it only took me one season to win a 'mirror ball.'

  

  Donald Driver
  • Mirror

• Breaking dramatically with Bush-era Republican orthodoxy, Trump ran on a message of 'America First' and of avoiding spending blood and treasure on adventures overseas.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • America
  • Trump

• After writing for TV for a while, I got sort of fed up with all of the cancellations and the volatility in that industry. Also, you're always writing for someone else's character and story, and I really wanted to develop my own.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

  

  Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Die

• Marines and soldiers don't issue themselves orders; they don't send themselves overseas. United States citizens elect the leaders who send us overseas.

  

  Phil Klay

• People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • People
  • Power
  • Lit

• One of the main secrets to staying young is staying healthy. I've sometimes had to suppress a smile when some young lady, who has obviously not taken care of herself through diet or exercise, says admiringly, 'Ooh, I hope I look as good as you do when I'm your age!' Although it's intended to be complimentary, it's actually a back-hander.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Age

• I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Money
  • Decision
  • Bribes

• I think it will thrill you. It may shock you. It might even horrify you. So if any of you feel that you do not care to subject your nerves to such a strain, now is your chance to-Well, we warned you.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • May

• It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.

  

  Dave Eggers

• When you're my age, you'll see that it is wiser to make your own decisions than let time make decisions for you.

  

  Charles Finch
  • Age
  • Decision
  • Wiser