Longshoremen Quotes

#1. So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

Clint Walker

#2. For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

Kathe Kollwitz

#3. The good thing about problems is that they all have solutions.

Tag Cavello

#4. I must remember about chandeliers and dancing, about swans and roses and snow.

Jean Rhys

#5. Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

Rita Mae Brown

#6. I know about skeletons. Once I went to a museum and saw dinosaur skeletons. They are like jigsaw puzzles for scientists.

Claire King

#7. Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

Hans Rosling

#8. We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

Mark V. Hurd

#9. How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find:

Samuel Johnson

#10. Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#11. Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.

Ray Bradbury

#12. Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

Jon Weisman