Colin Powell Quotes
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
Colin Powell
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
Campbell Scott
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
Edmund Phelps
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
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Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.
Val Kilmer
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
Sam Harris
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
F. Gary Gray
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I'm not a car person. Three years after 'The Da Vinci Code' came out, I still had my old, rusted Volvo. And people are like, 'Why don't you have a Maserati?' It never occurred to me. It wasn't a priority for me. I just didn't care.
Dan Brown
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
Hanif Kureishi
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader
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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
Eddy Grant
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Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet.
Jerome K. Jerome
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. Wilson
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Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
Paul Theroux
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Think I'll roll another number for the road,I feel able to get under any load,Though my feet aren't on the ground,I've been standing on the soundOf some open-hearted people going down.
Neil Young
Buffalo Springfield
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During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.
Ella Baker
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.
Colin Powell
