Calvin Cambridge Quotes

#1. And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?

Zadie Smith

#2. Bing," Manx said, "I thought I told you to put Mr. and Mrs. de Zoet in the spare room!"
"Well," Bing said, "they aren't hurting anyone."
"No. Of course they're not hurting anyone. They're dead! But that's no reason to have them underfoot either!

Joe Hill

#3. I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to throw water into the sea.

Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

#4. The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

Tom Seaver

#5. The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

Deepak Chopra

#6. I never planned to be rich, frankly speaking. I was more interested in being free, and doing things. And money helps. But otherwise I was never that interested in it.

Alexander Lebedev

#7. It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent]

Karen Maitland

#8. I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

Jaime Camil

#9. What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

Peter Maxwell Davies

#10. Most believe that the key to influence is communication - getting your point across clearly and speaking persuasively. In fact, if you think about it, don't you find that, while others are speaking to you, instead of really listening to understand, you are often busy preparing your response?

Stephen R. Covey

#11. The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases Him.

Vincent De Paul

#12. The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

Jennifer McMahon

#13. I did a film called 'Patriot Games' with Harrison Ford, and we actually shot three different versions of my death. And they settled on the third.

Sean Bean

#14. That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

Eric Hoffer

#15. The triumph of vegetation is total.

Michel Houellebecq