Chinese Bamboo Quotes

#1. But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree.

Zig Ziglar

#2. I wonder what it was like to be an actor years ago. We're so respected now and I don't think it does us any good. We used to be vagabonds. I want to be a vagabond!

Sophie Thompson

#3. Good praying is more easily caught than taught.

D. A. Carson

#4. I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

Nicholson Baker

#5. Well, fuck them.
Make it personal.

Richard K. Morgan

#6. Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

Arnold Bennett

#7. You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

Eric Bana

#8. It's hard to think that you're a political consultant - not many people are going to get a crack at a thing like this.

James Carville

#9. My life edges out any sense of sanity I can have, and I come to realize there won't be a point where things can be ordinary again, or as ordinary as I would have them.

Thomm Quackenbush

#10. The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.

Henry Van Dyke

#11. So if it appears that my argument supports the necessity of lawyers, please accept that I say it with reluctant awareness that things would be worse without them.

David Brin

#12. I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

Marianne Faithfull

#13. Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.

Edward Abbey