Andrew Mellon Quotes

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

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• So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • English
  • Language
  • Novels

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• There are just so many young designers now.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Young
  • Just
  • Now

• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Now
  • Talking
  • Numbers

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Opportunity
  • Always
  • Someone

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Music
  • Yoga
  • Cinema

• My music is a luxury.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Luxury

• I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feet

• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Me
  • Write
  • Hero

• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Music
  • Passion

• I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Money
  • Myself

• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • More
  • Move
  • Ant

• If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Find

• 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Monster

• My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • True
  • Dream
  • Now

• For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Good
  • Nature

• I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Different
  • Live
  • Country

• Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • People
  • Good
  • Study

• I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.

  

  Bryan Lee O'Malley
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• My dad has always been extremely supportive in every decision I've made and much more interested in me picking what I wanted to do.

  

  Colin Hanks
  • Dad
  • Decision

• Gentlemen prefer bonds.

  

  Andrew Mellon