B. C. Forbes Quotes
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.B. C. Forbes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
Natasha Trethewey -
Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
I. M. Pei -
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Discipline is not a nasty word.
Pat Riley -
People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
Malcolm Forbes -
But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
Dan Wheldon
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Honesty is something you can't wear out.
Waylon Jennings -
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday -
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen -
Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
Abbas Kiarostami -
I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
Eric Lynn Wright
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
A. N. Wilson -
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Ednita Nazario -
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
Gail Collins -
Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
Tatiana Maslany -
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
Taylor Lautner
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Yogi Berra -
I would have rather felt you round my throatCrushing out life, than waving me farewell!
Adela Florence Nicolson -
I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.
Leila Aboulela -
I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
Cynthia Nixon -
The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
B. C. Forbes