Victoria Finlay Quotes

#1. I just try to keep the same people I've had around me from Day One. Keep it a real small circle because if you do that, not too much is going to go bad for you.

Kevin Love

#2. Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#4. In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

Victoria Finlay

#5. Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate them.

Victoria Finlay

#6. I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

Victoria Finlay

#7. Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand

Prabal Gurung

#8. Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

Xun Zi

#9. Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

Victoria Finlay

#10. If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.

Victoria Finlay

#11. Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

Victoria Finlay

#12. Almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.

Victoria Finlay

#13. What they signified was precious, but what they were was not.

Victoria Finlay

#14. Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

William Penn