Maurois Promise Quotes

#1. The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Josh Billings

#2. You could slap his wrist for saying it, but then he said it with his face, and you could spank him for making faces, but then he said it with his eyes, and there were limits to correction - no way, in the end, to penetrate behind the blue irises and eradicate a boy's disgust.

Jonathan Franzen

#3. People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

Daniel Goleman

#4. I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

Brian Selznick

#5. Nobody has really grasped yet the great wealth that can be made selling data over the Web. There are 100 million potential customers out there.

Michael J. Saylor

#6. I've been the teenage success, I've been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn't done 'Wild Bill,' I'm sure I would have acted in something else.

Dexter Fletcher

#7. For the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.

Darren White

#8. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Lao-Tzu

#9. The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. I don't think perfect is interesting. I think what makes life exciting is the imperfections.

Mary Frann

#11. Matchsticks A Not Quite the Fairy Tale Short Story May Sage

Aimee Easterling

#12. Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Tina Fey

#14. I like to go back over history and check out what people have written and whether I agree with it or not.

Harvey Pekar