Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Elizabeth Kolbert
Quotes to Explore
We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
Candice S. Miller
When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge
Reviewers are entitled to say if they liked the screenplay, performance, and execution of a film or not. But when they say things like the film doesn't cater to a certain audience, it leaves people wondering if they should watch it.
Rakul Preet Singh
Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
Samantha Harvey
What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
Kassie DePaiva
My school music teacher, Al Bennest, introduced me to jazz by playing Louis Armstrong's record of "West End Blues" for me. I found more jazz on the radio, and began looking for records. My paper route money, and later, money I earned working after school in a print shop and a butcher shop went toward buying jazz records. I taught myself the alto saxophone and the drums in order to play in my high school dance band.
Bill Crow
I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
Adam Mansbach
We have seen the extent of the desecration and destruction of the facilities of the finest institution in the country.
Laisenia Qarase
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
Elia Kazan
City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
Gavin Newsom
Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Elizabeth Kolbert
