Ardington Berkshire Quotes & Sayings

Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion. — Lawrence Schiller

You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God. — Joel Osteen

I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. — Lester Bangs

Her heart
is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of. And she says, that lady rich and beautiful that I can never come near, 'Only put me in that empty place, only try how little I mind myself, only prove what a world of things I will do and bear for you, and I hope that you might even come to be so much better than you are, through me who am so much worse, and hardly worth the thinking of beside you. — Charles Dickens

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing ... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations. — Winston Churchill

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others. — Rick Warren

We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.' — Leo Burnett