Electronically File Quotes

#1. Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, it consumes, it hates, and it dreams - but it never builds.

William Manchester

#2. My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

Chris Stapleton

#3. We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

Charles Darwin

#4. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#5. The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

Greg Boyle

#6. If you want to attain moksha (ultimate liberation), then you cannot give unsolicited advice. Give advice only when it is asked for. In order to give advice, you have to become the chief!

Dada Bhagwan

#7. Discipline is for professionals.
Motivation is for amateurs.

J.R. Rim

#8. . . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes.

Simon Van Booy

#9. The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them.

Maurice Jarre

#11. Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.

Robert Silverberg

#12. I have played old ladies since I was 17 years old, and very convincingly. I've always looked funny and was too tall to play the leads and so had to play the grandmothers.

Geraldine Page

#13. Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. Most journalists are restless voyeurs who see the warts on the world, the imperfections in people and places ... gloom is their game, the spectacle their passion, normality their nemesis.

Gay Talese