Barry Gordy Quotes & Sayings

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. — Olivia De Havilland

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself. — Mae West

He asked if she sold luminous flowers that he had heard about, flowers which shone in the dark. He wanted them, he said, for a woman who shone in the dark. He could swear that when he took her to the theater and she sat back in the dark in her evening dress, her skin was as luminous as the finest sea shell, with a pale pink glow to it. And he wanted these flowers for her to wear in her hair. Mathilde did not have them. But as soon as the man left she went to look at herself in the mirror. This was the kind of feeling she wanted to inspire. Could she? — Anais Nin

I had always planned to be an actor, and the music was just in my DNA, it's always been. — Creed Bratton

I myself wouldn't want to read a magazine that focuses solely on a small part of the literary field or of the popular culture - better to smash the borders and look for interesting and important stuff from many different forms of storytelling. — Toni Jerrman

I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's already there. It's about trying to blend the future and the past. — Moshe Safdie

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly. — Langston Hughes

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business. — Donald Trump

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C.S. Lewis

Tanner Stone was way too sure of himself. Too many women had been letting him have it all his own way. — Amy Andrews

I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love. — Wolfgang Puck

Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought. — Mark Twain

There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape, this music. I was sort of dancing with my eyes closed and you saw me.'
' ... yes, I remember that occasion. I still think about it from time to time.'
'That's funny, so do I. — Kazuo Ishiguro