Eavesdropper By Feathers Quotes

#1. There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

Eli Broad

#2. This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

Malala Yousafzai

#3. Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

Cate Blanchett

#4. As the mother of the ten-month-old hospitalized in San Diego said, if people want to make that choice, they should go live on an island with its own schools and doctors: "their own little infectious disease island.

Deborah Blum

#5. The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.

Aldous Huxley

#6. There is no point in retaining a brand equity if it has no traction with consumers, or has no likelihood of doing so.

Nick Cooper

#7. It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts.

Abraham Lincoln

#9. The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

Stephen Covey

#10. Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.

Andrea Tantaros

#11. Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.

Oscar Wilde