Bill Porter Quotes

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

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• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • You
  • Play

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Think
  • Question

• Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Crazy

• For the rain it raineth every day.

  

  Rain
  • Rain

• The neurosis of normality is a case of repetition compulsion caused by the repression of awareness.

  

  Sam Keen

• The man recovered of the bite,The dog it was that died.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Dog

• Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Time
  • History
  • Player

• If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Hero
  • Planning

• It's difficult to write about poverty in a way that doesn't feel cliched.

  

  Jake Halpern
  • Poverty

• Everything I do will always be compared to 'Love Song' in terms of success or the way it's written or whatever, but it was a really formative moment in my life and in my career.

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Life
  • Career
  • Success

• I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • People
  • Black
  • Gold

• I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.

  

  Kathryn Lasky
  • She
  • Marriage

• We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in.

  

  Arun Sarin
  • Choose
  • Responsible
  • Areas

• Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Work
  • Perfect

• I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Need
  • Instinct

• The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

  

  Bill Porter
  • Mind
  • Hold