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

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• 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

• Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • You
  • Audience

• 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

• Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Free

• 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

• The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Time
  • Water
  • Air

• Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• He managed to lie by implication while speaking words that were the literal truth, a skill he had grown good at, if not proud of.

  

  David Brin
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Words

• The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care.

  

  Chris Brown
  • Words

• Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • People
  • World
  • Long

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

  

  Bill Porter
  • Mind
  • Hold