Trocadateur Quotes

#1. Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas.

Rachel Holmes

#2. Meantime, when once we know from nothing still
Nothing can be create, we shall divine
More clearly what we seek: those elements
From which alone all things created are,
And how accomplished by no tool of Gods.

Lucretius

#3. The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.

Umberto Eco

#4. We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Helen Keller

#5. I learned the value of focus. I learned it is better to do one product well than two products in a mediocre way.

Reed Hastings

#6. I'm sort of a straight shooter.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#7. Which would you prefer? To be king of the mountain for a day? Or to be a child of God for eternity?

Max Lucado

#8. I created a new marketing slogan for Teaching Snapping Turtles:

"Read this. You're not gonna like it.

Jonathan Heatt

#9. I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

Barney Frank

#10. I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

John Fogerty

#11. Killing a teenager would be no big deal at all.

Darrell Pitt

#12. I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

Laura Mennell

#13. If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

Joan Collins

#14. I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.

Kim Fields

#15. Fear is the killer of fascinating change.

Debasish Mridha