Linford Christie Quotes

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

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• There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Truth
  • Consensus

• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Strength

• When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Lucky

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism
  • Lower

• Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Book
  • Want
  • Saying

• It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Impossible
  • Common
  • Laborers

• We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Best
  • Service
  • Need

• In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Universe
  • Mistakes
  • Radio

• I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • See
  • Crisis

• I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Carry
  • Windows
  • iPhone

• When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

  

  Harper Lee

• I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • King
  • Princess
  • Cinderella

• Any operating system without a browser is going to be fucking out of business. Should we improve our product, or go out of business?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Business

• I'm very hard on myself as an artist to begin with, so I personally don't even think I have the proper chops to sell a record, but people think differently.

  

  Ashleigh Murray
  • People

• By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Strong
  • Stock

• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • World
  • Comforting

• The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.

  

  Lewis Tappan
  • Time
  • Good

• We're playing all these weird festivals, usually outdoors.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Weird
  • Playing
  • Festivals

• Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

  

  Bob Wise
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

  

  James William Ercolan

• If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

  

  Linford Christie