Blacketts Ridge Quotes

#1. I was always drawn toward the Actor's Studio. I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute when I first came to New York. One of my favorite teachers was one of Al [Pachino]'s teachers, a guy named Charlie Laughton, who was just a wonderful, wonderful man.

Karen Allen

#2. I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

Henry Blodget

#4. You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#5. True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally only glance at an object long enough to tag it with a name.

Ross Parmenter

#6. Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

Colin Greenwood

#7. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Marcus Garvey

#8. Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don't quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.

Jack Welch

#9. To remain standing one often has to fall.

Ashwin Sanghi

#10. Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say - 'He has been drinking beer, I presume.

Thomas De Quincey

#11. I think a bad husband is far worse than no husband ...

Margaret Cavendish

#12. Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Archie Panjabi

#13. It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. Islamic terrorists are the greatest security threats to the United States, both domestically and abroad. We need to be vigilant every day. Now, every citizen has to be vigilant because they are vital links in the national security chain.

Ralph Abraham