Ironworks Near Quotes

#1. The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

Carlos Santana

#2. The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.

Hertzan Chimera

#3. Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

Georg Simmel

#4. Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.

Jared Diamond

#5. I try not to have high expectations of people because it just sets you up for disappointment, but it's great to work with actors who are that talented and accomplished.

Famke Janssen

#6. I like to use my Larry Bird analogy, because I'm from Boston. It must have been frustrating playing behind Larry Bird. Because no matter what happens, good or bad, he's the guy. And you've got no chance of getting in. That's just the way it is. It's tough to play behind a future Hall of Famer.

Matt Hasselbeck

#7. Campuses that were once havens of free speech are now patrolled and regulated by thought police. Intellectual dishonesty has become a job requirement for university administrators.

Michael Barone

#8. If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

B.F. Skinner

#9. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.

John Ruskin

#10. Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

Alan Greenspan

#11. It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.

Confucius

#12. There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.

Jenna Morasca

#13. I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening.

Joe Sacco