Getters Quotes

#1. New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.

Busta Rhymes

#2. Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.

Robert Genn

#3. I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Peter Maurin

#4. Good givers are great getters.

Russell Simmons

#5. Getters don't get--givers get.

Eugene Benge

#6. Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators.

Tom Hodgkinson

#7. We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

William Henry Willimon

#8. The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

Chuck Schumer

#9. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

P.T. Barnum

#10. I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

Bear Grylls

#11. Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

P.T. Barnum

#12. I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

#13. I've never taken fashion too seriously. I try to enjoy it.

Soledad O'Brien

#14. Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

Graham Joyce

#15. In the end, bless the darkness, hold the light, because the two aren't divisible.

S. Kelley Harrell

#16. It is a common fallacy to believe that the law of large numbers acts as a force endowed with memory seeking to return to the original state, and many wrong conclusions have been drawn from this assumption.

William Feller

#17. Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Sherri Shepherd

#18. I think girls are surprised when you actually really listen and then you call it back at the end of the night.

Miles Teller