Robert Strauss Quotes

#1. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#2. You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.

Michael Lee West

#3. We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

Mitch Daniels

#4. I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.

Robert S. Strauss

#5. Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.

Michael Franti

#6. Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

Malachy McCourt

#7. If you increase the sales tax ... everybody would be taxed.

Robert Strauss

#8. I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

Shaun White

#9. I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

Thomas S. Monson

#10. Robert Strauss, the former Democratic chairman who died last year, once said every politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself.

Anonymous

#11. His blood simmered. She wasn't Miss Banks, she was Lady Benedict. And what did Samson mean she didn't wish to speak to him? Had she said that herself or had Lord Watson decided it for

Rose Gordon

#12. Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

Robert S. Strauss

#13. It is going to take a long time to switch Egypt into a democracy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#14. Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.

Robert Strauss

#15. [E]thical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

Erich Fromm

#16. Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole ... He just has a different OS.

Guy Kawasaki

#17. Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

Robert S. Strauss

#18. It did not seem odd to Max that what he had imagined about Stumps was really true, because this was exactly how games you made up worked. Of course they were true. In your mind.

Pauline Clarke

#19. What's going to happen is that county council and the county executive will be able to blame the judge. I think that's what's going to happen
they want to blame the judge for reassessment. That's not leadership, that's hiding.

Robert S. Strauss

#20. These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

Muriel Spark