Landes Quotes

#1. I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Smith

#2. We know what we are, that we walk like we are not long for this world, that this world has never longed for us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. When I was a kid, I was playing in various bands - amateur bands, garage bands, weekend bands, you name it, around the area. At some point, I just wanted to try the whole 'Beatle tribute band' thing, so I found a local band that was doing that.

Steve Landes

#4. Most people operate within a margin of plus or minus several minutes.

David S. Landes

#5. As for me, I prefer truth to goodthink. I feel surer on my ground.

David S. Landes

#6. I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

Steve Landes

#7. Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

David S. Landes

#8. Since politics - until recently - has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Bertha Knight Landes

#9. Maybe it wouldn't hurt if I kiss you, he said. Maybe it's only if you kiss me -

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

Katherine Paterson

#11. the clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronising the actions of men

David S. Landes

#12. That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

Paul Feig

#13. In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Bertha Knight Landes

#14. Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.

Bertha Knight Landes

#15. The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

Karl Lagerfeld

#16. To get free from sexual sin, you have to fight.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the kind of beauty that made your heart miss a beat - well, that remained the monsoon.

Alexander Frater

#18. What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Agnes Martin

#19. Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

David Landes

#20. Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

Ban Ki-moon

#21. Let us, while never forgetting our womanhood, drop all emphasis on sex, and put it on being public servants.

Bertha Knight Landes

#22. Fine wine leaves you with something pleasant. The ordinary wine just leaves.

Maynard Amerine

#23. We're not like some of those 'Elvis' guys you see in the grocery store, buying their stuff while dressed in a white jump suit, that sort of thing. We love doing what we do, we appreciate and respect our audiences, we have a true love of The Beatles.

Steve Landes

#24. If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

David Landes

#25. If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas

David Landes

#26. ... if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

David S. Landes

#27. In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are positive. Even when they are wrong they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success. Educated, eye-open optimism pays.

David Landes

#28. Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

David Landes

#29. It is the process of evolution which identifies innovative benefits from any source and selects them on merit without prejudice

David Landes

#30. Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon