Raconteurs Quotes

#1. Working with Ridley is working with one of the great filmmakers and one of the great raconteurs. You know, it's like, a dinner with Ridley Scott or a dinner with Martin Scorsese? You just want to cut your arm off to get those.

John Logan

#2. When Jack White called and wanted me to do a video and play mandolin with The Raconteurs, I didn't know anything about The Raconteurs at that time.

Ricky Skaggs

#3. I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

Jeff Garlin

#4. I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

Dennis Wilson

#5. Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced.

Nancy Mitford

#6. Adolescents sometimes say ... "My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

Laurence Steinberg

#7. And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Jackson Browne

#8. It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Steve Carlton

#9. Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.

James Heckman

#10. When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Dick Costolo

#11. I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Oscar Wilde

#12. But then again, we're all on death row, aren't we? Most of us just don't know it.

Lisa Unger

#13. though? Not something expensive or impossible to find; not something encoded in DNA or hardwired into the circuits of their brains. They lacked something that could have been given to them if we'd only known they needed it: a community around them that prepared them properly

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. If you wish to live in harmony, you must respect every person and, in non-essential matters, yield!

J.P. Vaswani

#15. I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd ... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.

Zachary Levi

#16. Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

Stephen Jay Gould

#17. Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

Elizabeth Inchbald