Advice For Crooks Quotes & Sayings

What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker. — Brian Selznick

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that. — John Sharp

49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way. — Burt Ward

Ted Cruz could be president of the United States. If you thought the Secret Service was drinking before — David Letterman

In every country the intellectual class is the most influential class. This is the class which can foresee advice and lead. In no country does the mass of the people live the life for intelligent thought and action. It is largely imitative and follows the intellectual class. There is no exaggeration in saying that the entire destination of the country depends upon its intellectual class. If the intellectual class is honest and independent, it can be trusted to take the initiative and give a proper lead when a crisis arises. It is true that the intellect by itself is no virtue. It is only a means and the use of a means depends upon the ends which an intellectual person pursues. An intellectual man can be a good man but he may easily be a rogue. Similarly an intellectual class may be a band of high-souled persons, ready to help, ready to emancipate erring humanity or it may easily be a gang of crooks or a body of advocates of narrow clique from which it draws its support. — B.R. Ambedkar

Someone recently asked what I am most proud of. The thing I'm most proud of is that I'm in my 50s and I'm still a leading lady. — Kim Cattrall

As you will have no doubt foreseen...

- Kelvin McKenzie, The Sun's editor; Preamble of the letter he sent to the paper's astrologer he was firing — Kelvin MacKenzie

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies. — Sofia Coppola

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. — Thomas Browne

On an animated movie, I'm learning as I go. There are so many details in animation. Doing the voices was the easy-part. Doing live-action, you have to be on the set, every day. — Graham King

{T}here are millions of books published every year exposing the world's corruption, and the corruption of the world only increases. Each book, in its own way, has teeth but nothing to bite into. No clear way to attack. There are also millions of books pushing for things to remain the same, or teaching you how to make money at the expense of others. Everything balances out, but the balance is so deeply imperfect, always tilting further and further towards the worst. — Jacob Wren

Perhaps [James Herondale] loved vice for vice's own sake. — Cassandra Clare

I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us — Jack Kerouac

Stay with the High Lord, human. You will be safe. — Sarah J. Maas

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I've always wanted to do. — Brandy Norwood

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. — Paulo Coelho

Didn't Notai ships usually have long names? Like Ineluctable Ascendancy of Mind Unfolding or The Finite Contains the Infinite Contains the Finite? Both of those ship names were fictional, characters in more or less famous melodramatic entertainments. — Ann Leckie