Embarcadero Capital Partners Quotes

#1. At night his most frequent recurring dream was of doing The Times crossword puzzle; his most disagreeable that he was reading a tedious book aloud to his family.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. The Philippines is for the Philippines. We can defend ourselves.

Benigno Aquino III

#4. Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.

Christopher Moore

#5. Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Sophia Loren

#6. Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

Holly Morris

#7. I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Richard Flanagan

#8. Which is why perhaps it is good news that in February 1999 the International Astronomical Union ruled officially that Pluto is a planet. The universe is a big and lonely place. We can do with all the neighbors we can get.

Anonymous

#9. You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

Anthony Hopkins

#10. Killing people was easier when the only face I ever saw was Mother's back then, anyone else was the enemy and shooting at an outline in a scope wasn't any different than taking down a deer, just in a different shape.

Mindy McGinnis

#11. Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

Elie Wiesel

#12. I don't mind being called a weirdo. There are a lot of people in hip-hop who are probably never going to get what I do. But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.

Nicki Minaj