Louise Brooks Quotes

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

Louise Brooks

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • School
  • True
  • Pretty

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Country
  • America
  • Future

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Home
  • War
  • Win

• My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Knew
  • Having
  • Normalcy

• The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.

  

  Ma Jun
  • motivation
  • Environmental

• I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Never
  • First
  • Be The First

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Good
  • Home
  • Taken

• There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Opinion

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

  

  Eric Liu
  • World
  • Style
  • Gold

• I get it, I really do, but at the same time, it's creepy.  It's creepy to see fan sites about me.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Time
  • Creepy

• I need to be bad. I don't want to burn out. I also don't want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Bad
  • Fun

• I love so-called movies that are bad movies, but 'Prometheus' is one of those movies that people are gonna come back around on in 20 years. There's gonna be midnight screenings of that thing.

  

  Adam Wingard
  • People
  • Bad

• A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • World
  • Empty
  • Conquer