Elaraby Quotes

#1. Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

Maureen Corrigan

#2. The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.

W. Mark Felt

#3. I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.

Carroll Shelby

#5. It wasn't perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn't. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.

Max Brooks

#6. The challenge is this: training creative, independent, and innovative artists is new to us.

Seth Godin

#7. This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.

Reif Larsen

#8. When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.

Henry Silverman

#9. The time is ripe for the whole region to live in peace.

Nabil Elaraby

#10. Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

Andy Zaltzman

#11. His words are heavy with rare things: care and possibility.

Erika Swyler

#12. The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

Julien Green

#13. I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy ... Rest Well. Gone Too Soon ... we'll miss you!!

Usher

#14. If we could see our lives objectively, we could see that they are not something we should inflict on anyone.

Peter Singer

#15. I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

Josh McDermitt