Nelson Riddle Quotes

#1. Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

Harlan Coben

#2. Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Deborah Sampson

#3. Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.

David Lubar

#4. This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers, and making them think they're really benefiting.

Murray Rothbard

#5. He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

Nelson Riddle

#6. All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.

Gerald Jampolsky

#7. I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

Richard Desmond

#8. I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.

Tony Hsieh

#9. I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#10. I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

Ginger Rogers

#11. My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

Gwyneth Paltrow