Upstarts Quotes

#1. Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.

Michael Lewis

#3. Sure. I'd like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It's exciting. It's dangerous. It's funny. It's tough. It's heartbreaking.

Weegee

#4. To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.

David Hume

#5. Both my New Hampshire great-grandfathers wore facial hair: the Copperhead who fought in the war and the sheep farmer too old for combat.

Donald Hall

#6. May one plead, Your Honor, postmodernism as an involuntary condition?

Jonathan Lethem

#7. Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

Naguib Mahfouz

#8. Moments have fallen from your eyes, like tears written in the wind. There, on the river of knowledge, where you live from your memories.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#9. I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

Sarah Zettel

#10. Opened his door. "That's not what I - " "Is that my baby?" Carol Matthews stepped from the screen

Cate Beauman

#11. To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Constantin Brancusi

#12. When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.

Anais Nin

#13. The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#14. I commissioned two political experts to advise me about what I could do to oppose the re-election of President Bush.

George Soros

#15. English is becoming a universal language such as humans have never had before.

Minae Mizumura

#16. Just so you know
I'd be much less calmer

if you took your patronising Capitalist
ramble
off the face of the Earth

and remember to leave me the fuck
alone

when I'm listening to the Upstarts.

Andy Carrington

#17. Goals should be broken down into parts, and then think over the plan of their implementation

Sunday Adelaja

#18. COLBIE: He's a man, and they're not smart like us card-carrying vaginas. I think the penis distract them too much, yet they still managed to invent airplanes and TV. Give the guy a break.

Bijou Hunter