Alertscc Quotes & Sayings

Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character ... — Alfred Armand Montapert

Jazz, like leadership, combines the unpredictability of the future with the gifts of individuals. — Max De Pree

It's incredible. The more we learn about the world, the less we seem to know. — Oliver Bowden

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in. — Drew Roy

There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy. — Stewart Stern

I lost a lot of friends at the hands of the British Army. The person who actually introduced me to my wife, Colm Keenan, was murdered by the British Army. He was a member of the IRA, but he was unarmed. — Martin McGuinness

The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury. — Edward Gibbon

See, an ugly person who goes after a pretty person gets nothing but trouble. But a pretty person who goes after an ugly person gets at least cab-fare. — Harvey Fierstein

You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right. — Scott Pelley

I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward. — Anita Roddick