All Quotes

Most fledgling and mid-list writers are lucky to be offered a 4-figure sum and are not only expected to deliver copy that needs minimal editing but also take an active part in marketing and publicizing their work.
‐‐ Sara Sheridan

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
‐‐ Mehmet Oz

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
‐‐ Henry A. Kissinger

Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick

Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.
‐‐ Chris Cornell

Most game music is based on loops effectively.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Most geniuses are weird.
‐‐ T-Pain

Most gentlemen don't like love, they just like to kick it around.
‐‐ Cole Porter

Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.
‐‐ Jayne Mansfield

Most Glorious and eternal Majesty, Thou art righteous and holy in all thou dost to the sons of men, though thou hast suffered men to condemn Thy servant, Thy servant will not condemn Thee.
‐‐ Christopher Love

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.
‐‐ Terry Pratchett

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.
‐‐ Tim Robbins

Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
‐‐ Samuel West

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
‐‐ Nell Freudenberger

Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'
‐‐ Nick Denton

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
‐‐ Linus Torvalds

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.
‐‐ Mona Sutphen

Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
‐‐ Ian Hart

Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way.
‐‐ Greg Ginn

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
‐‐ Eric Johnston

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.
‐‐ Al-Waleed bin Talal

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America. They have sponsored coup d'etats, assassinations.
‐‐ Hugo Chavez

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.
‐‐ Robert M. Gates

Most grain foods, whether we're talking about quinoa, amaranth, the very popular grains of the day - the reality is they still are associated with a carbohydrate surge.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

Most gravity has no known origin. Is it some exotic particle? Nobody knows. Is dark energy responsible for expansion of the universe? Nobody knows.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Most great advances have been a collaboration. That is the joy of science for me.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
‐‐ Barbara Corcoran

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
‐‐ Napoleon Hill

Most great plays of the past lose their grip on immediacy; on application to our lives right now.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

Most great records really start with the drums.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

Most groups patent ways of using genetic discoveries as part of non-obvious diagnostic and therapeutic protocols and slightly or greatly altered genes.
‐‐ George M. Church

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.
‐‐ Robby Krieger

Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

Most guys, tough or not, hide emotions. I know a lot of tough guys; they're just as weak as the next man, but they don't show it.
‐‐ Jason Statham

Most guys who don't like me are either Democrats or Yankee fans.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staff our productive economy, so that the standard of living for Americans as a whole can grow.
‐‐ Alan Greenspan

Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
‐‐ Hannah Simone

Most hiring managers interview a lot of people. So many that they generally have to go back to their notes to remember candidates - the exception being candidates with a strong hook. Sometimes these hooks are how people dress or their personality, but the best hook is a strong story that's work-related.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.
‐‐ Henry Bonilla

Most historians agree that Abraham Lincoln was the most important man to ever occupy the White House because he abolished slavery and kept the states united through a bloody civil war.
‐‐ Kitty Kelley