Chang Tzu Quotes

#1. Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

Neil Postman

#3. I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience - or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.

Henry James

#4. Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#5. It's because your subconscious finds my subconscious irresistible.

Julie James

#6. I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action.

Bill Gates

#7. Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Lydia M. Child

#8. We don't consider the Wizard of Oz or Father Christmas to be too old. They're still magical characters, and the fact they've been around the block only adds to their magic.

Peter Capaldi

#9. Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only by showing them a higher one.

Maria Weston Chapman

#10. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.

Peter Schiff