Landman's Quotes

#1. The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)

Daniel Quinn

#2. If you wanted a safe job, go sell shoes. This is a tough business.

Chuck Hagel

#3. Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

William Penn

#4. I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.

Mary Ellen Mark

#5. I get on a real serious health kick when I'm on the road, because as a singer, you can't really get sick. If you get sick, your whole instrument stops working. I've done all these different vitamin drinks. I drink coconut water, and I run. I eat food. I juice.

Matisyahu

#6. Remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Andrew Lang

#7. Consensus is the absence of leadership.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. In the last twenty-five years a change has come over the visual habits of Americans ... From being a wordminded people we are becoming an eyeminded people.

John Dos Passos

#9. To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. When I'm writing, I write all day. Other days, I sit around thinking. Or I run around from one meeting to another, out in the world. It varies, and I like that.

Alain De Botton

#11. His dark hair was thick and looked so soft I had to resist the urge to touch it. Looking into his dark eyes was like falling into the stars, making me feel weightless and disoriented.

Gwen Hayes

#12. Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.

Hiromu Arakawa

#13. as much as we wanted to do the right thing. Sometimes, the right thing was just admitting defeat.

M. Robinson

#14. He held up two fingers, in case a landman might not fully comprehend so great a number.

Patrick O'Brian

#15. This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.

David Lange

#16. I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Tom Jenkinson