Wilbur Lucius Cross Quotes

"Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."

Wilbur Lucius Cross

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• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Try

• I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Morning
  • Car
  • Driving

• Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Great
  • Today
  • Game

• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • World
  • Failure

• Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Present
  • Imagination

• He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Wishes

• The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

  

  David Guetta
  • American
  • Culture
  • Bridge

• I've been able to work with some incredible voice talent, most of whom I grew up hearing in my favorite cartoons.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Up
  • Work

• When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

  

  Betty Gilpin

• I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Attention

• I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Life
  • Stress

• For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.

  

  Andre Ward
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Knowledge

• China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Present
  • Period
  • Alien

• I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

  

  Kenny Chesney

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.

  

  Nathan Adrian
  • Hand
  • First
  • Fastest

• In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Perfect
  • Winter
  • Climb

• "Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest. . . ."

  

  Wilbur Lucius Cross
  • Choices
  • Results
  • Produce