Collis Potter Huntington Quotes

#1. I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

Collis Potter Huntington

#2. As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

BD Wong

#3. What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

Charlotte Moss

#4. We Shall Build Good Ships Here; At A Profit If We Can, At A Loss If We Must, But Always Good Ships.

Collis Potter Huntington

#5. Do what gives you a buzz.

Trevor Baylis

#6. You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.

Kimbra

#7. No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

Samuel Rutherford

#8. In effect, historians abolished poverty by the simple device of taking it off the agenda.

A.G. Hopkins

#9. Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

Rita Hayworth

#10. Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Alan Bennett

#11. You can't just vote for yourself. All the time, you're thinking what sort of country, what world, what future?

Gordon Brown

#12. I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

Collis Potter Huntington

#13. I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

John Schlesinger

#14. I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.

Kelly Corrigan

#15. Where we find young democracies, we need to help them. Where we find the enemy, we need to fight them. And that's exactly the Bush policy.

George W. Bush

#16. As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.

Bernie Sanders

#17. Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis Potter Huntington

#18. Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

Rory Vaden