Jim Laker Quotes

#1. Let me persuade you then
oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.

Charles Dickens

#2. One wrong social move---say---like hanging with the wrong person," she said nastily, "Can make your life around here a living nightmare and I definitely don't think that you want that.

T.L. Clarke

#3. Together with the topic of a text, the reader usually needs to know its point. He needs to know what the author is trying to accomplish as she explores the topic.

Steven Pinker

#4. I don't have TIME to beat 'about' the bush..I VALUE MY TIME, so I would rather get into the bush and find out what's happening..!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#5. Steel is such a nice material to use. It can move. It's terribly easy, you just stick it or you cut it off, and bang! you're there: it's so direct. I think Manet was very direct, he didn't prepare his canvases like Courbet, he just put paint straight on and it's very like that with steel.

Anthony Caro

#6. Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.

Gloria Swanson

#7. In the NBA, it's about patience.

Chauncey Billups

#8. The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

Jim Laker