Daniel Finkelstein Quotes

You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

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• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Done
  • Character
  • Influence

• Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Rich
  • Constitution

• I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth

• I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Family
  • Like
  • Commercial

• I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.

  

  Randy Newman
  • True
  • Earth
  • Genius

• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Desert

• Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Country
  • Boy
  • Tragic

• I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Time
  • World
  • Free

• My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• By having a blog, you can make yourself very accessible to your target audience. You can leave comments open on your blog so you can learn exactly what your audience likes about what you're doing with your business and about what they think you should change.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Change
  • Yourself

• Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

  

  Pat Robertson

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Country
  • Real

• There are several revenue streams that are near and present that could support a private space station, including in-space manufacturing, microgravity research, and tourism - for both individuals and sovereign nation astronauts - and in-space supply logistics.

  

  Dylan Taylor
  • Support
  • Space
  • Present

• Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Book
  • Free
  • Sales

• In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.

  

  Om Malik

• Sir Thomas was a sentimental man. He loved Soldiers. He had once thought all men who wore the red coat were rogues and thieves, the scourings of the gutters, and since he had joined the army he had discovered he was right, but he had also learned to love them. He loved their patience, their ferocity, their endurance, and their bravery.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Men
  • Red
  • Army

• What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

  

  Epictetus
  • Death
  • Bite
  • Scary Mask

• I've learned that no matter what shape you get your body into, if you don't get your head right, you're not going to feel good about yourself.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Good

• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Eyes
  • Friendship

• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  

  Daniel Finkelstein
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