The Hidden Persuaders Quotes

#1. When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

Etta James

#2. Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus,' wrote Wiley. 'Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#3. The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

Harold H. Greene

#4. If your team members can run a home, raise a family, and organize their lives, they are fully equipped to run a multimillion-dollar business.

Mary Christensen

#5. She said when a boy and a girl dog copulate, the head of the boy's penis swells and the vaginal muscles of the girl constrict. Even after sex, both dogs remain locked together, helpless and miserable for a brief period of time.
The Mommy said this same scenario described most marriages.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.

Rafael Nadal

#7. Everybody lies about sex.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. If you don't run, you can't win.

Geraldine Ferraro

#9. What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.

Brian Christian

#10. I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

Barbara Kruger

#11. I'd ask how you're doing and if you've been busy today, but these new binoculars work great - a "must-have" for all intense investigators.

Suzanne Wright

#12. In love, 100 pennies do not equal a dollar.

Carlos Salinas

#13. Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It is liable to absorb whispered suggestions, and to incorporate them as hidden persuaders into the code.

Arthur Koestler

#14. All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Jackie Collins