Alex Ferguson Quotes

Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

Alex Ferguson

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• I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Great
  • Song
  • Band

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Pain
  • Moves
  • Talks

• Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Professional

• The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Politics
  • Democrats
  • Corrupt

• One shouldn't know the future.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Future
  • Know

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Think
  • Fall
  • Tree

• The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.

  

  Sam Altman
  • World
  • Experience
  • You

• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• Being a father is just wonderful.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Father
  • Being
  • Just

• There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Different
  • Hope

• I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Always
  • Enjoy
  • First-Person

• Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and understand what that day is about; you've got to have personal goals - short term goals, intermediate goals, and long term goals. Be flexible in getting to those goals, but if you do not have goals, you will not achieve them.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Long
  • Day

• I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Good
  • Think
  • Parent

• People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Great
  • Institutions

• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Die

• Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Great
  • Acting
  • Popular

• I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Listen

• The passage he was to read was from Revelations - or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Desire

• The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

  

  Emily Martin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sleep

• All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • World
  • Women
  • Amputations

• I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Hand

• Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

  

  Alex Ferguson