Bill Lear Quotes

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Bill Lear

Painted

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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

William Bligh
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.

Sandra Cisneros
- Writing
- Children
- Mother
When there’s too much silence, she said, so many ideas come to mind, I don’t pay attention. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles.

Elena Ferrante
- Attention
- Ideas
- Silence
Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.

Richard N. Haass
- Country
- Purpose
- Realist
It is only too easy to catch people's attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.

Claude Monet
- Attention
- Catch
- Dared
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.

John Lennon The Beatles
- Control