All Quotes

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.
‐‐ Ernie Els

For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
‐‐ Mortimer Zuckerman

For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.
‐‐ Lionel Barber

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
‐‐ David Nicholls

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.
‐‐ Steve Carell

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'
‐‐ Alex Ebert

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
‐‐ Adam Hochschild

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
‐‐ Frantz Fanon

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
‐‐ Tom Peters

For the broadcast business to be successful, viewers need to be not merely interested in our political melodramas, they have to be in an absolute state about them - emotionally invested in the outcome and frightened not to watch what happens next.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
‐‐ Karl Marx

For the cable news guest, nothing happens for a while until suddenly everything happens very quickly. After you receive your television face, you stand around for a while, ignored, until you're sat down at a desk and asked to argue with strangers.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.
‐‐ George Linnaeus Banks

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.
‐‐ Chris Raschka

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

For the critic, the word 'best' is like a grenade without a pin: Toss it around too freely, and you're likely to get your hand blown off.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

For the dead there are no more toils.
‐‐ Sophocles

For the demise of the Latin monarch, he who will reign with help and support will burn a brilliant fire. The Republic's booty divided and its bold dream disappeared.
‐‐ Nostradamus

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
‐‐ Shelley Berkley

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support cultures and the remaining biological sanctuaries.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.
‐‐ Georg Simmel

For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
‐‐ Joseph A. Schumpeter

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.
‐‐ Julius Wellhausen

For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
‐‐ Anne Edwards

For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves.
‐‐ Michel Onfray

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
‐‐ Christopher Columbus

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.
‐‐ Anthony Weiner

For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.'
‐‐ Nic Pizzolatto

For the first 18 months of Joy Division, we used our jobs to fund the band. We'd all chip in three, five quid to go and do a gig. But it was worth it. It was amazing we could afford to feed ourselves. But we were so creatively and artistically satisfied. You can't explain that to somebody who's never been there.
‐‐ Peter Hook

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
‐‐ Pierre Dukan

For the first case I did with Octone, 360 deals were not at all being talked about. And then for the follow-up case, it was the focus. I wanted to see how things were changing and what the new challenges were.
‐‐ Anita Elberse

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.
‐‐ Richard Krajicek

For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare body against my bare chest until a friend who was a doctor came by and asked what I was doing, and told me to put some clothes on that baby.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
‐‐ Jean Nidetch

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.
‐‐ Ne-Yo

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
‐‐ Nigel Dennis

For the first few years we paid all the bills first and divided what was left as salary. Sometimes that was $50 a week.
‐‐ Pink

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

For the first five years of music and first five years of acting, I don't remember it because I was running to where I was going. Finally I was like, 'Man, I missed everything.' So I just stopped, and I started looking around.
‐‐ Christian Kane

For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very small town, like 300 people, mostly hippies. No running water, no electricity. When I was 12, I changed my name from Dharma to Stewart. At that age, you just want to be normal.
‐‐ Stewart Butterfield

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
‐‐ Damon Galgut