Lois McMaster Quotes

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fire

• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Fun
  • Want
  • You

• We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Children
  • Society
  • Idea

• After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Go
  • Once

• The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Should
  • Grandparents
  • Grandchildren

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Country
  • Political

• Some things have to be believed to be seen.

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Things
  • Seen
  • Some

• I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Lucky
  • Feet

• If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Society
  • Young
  • Will

• I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • May
  • Team

• My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Education
  • Daughters

• When I was a teenager, me and a couple of my friends entered a couple of modeling competitions just for fun, and one of those got me an agent in Sydney.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Couple

• In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Fantasy
  • Luxury
  • Middle East

• Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

  

  Andrew Lawrence
  • Words

• It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Fortunately I had a great intern who did a lot of the research on Andy's prices, which of course are phenomenal, but getting them straight - you know, he's reached this $100million plateau that only a handful of other artists have reached, which puts him in the company of Cezanne, Klimt, Picasso, and such.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • Great
  • Prices
  • Phenomenal

• The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Writing
  • Couple

• Successful writers say you should never work from a desk with a view, and the view I have from this one is a huge distraction. There's a garden bursting with fresh vegetation, and just beyond the high wall at the end of it, I can see the sign of the local pub across the road. Distractions, eh? I'm so easily led.

  

  Matt Roper
  • Work
  • High
  • Road

• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Friends
  • Adversity