Bassermann Jordan Quotes & Sayings

Getting older is a lot of fun. Right up there with chewing glass or putting your hand in a blender. — Albert Brooks

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less. — Morgan Freeman

No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family's care. But at the same time, government can either support or undermine families as they cope with moral, social and economic stresses of caring for children. — Hillary Clinton

If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged — Greg Egan

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. — H.L. Mencken

The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. — Marcel Proust

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible. — Elizabeth I

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue. — Donna Shalala

furnaces for dyers and brewers, which when known will be used without — David Wootton

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid. — Jim Lehrer

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do. — Ilana Mercer

He stared to sea. I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I offered myself every pleasure. I traveled a great deal. I lost some money dabbling in the theatre, but I made much more dabbling on the Bourse. I gained a great many amusing friends, some of whom are now quite famous. But I was never very happy. I suppose I was fortunate. It took me only five years to discover what some rich people never discover - that we all have a certain capacity for happiness and unhappiness. And that the economic hazards of life do not seriously affect it. — John Fowles

It's a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you - when he comes down from the mountain and you see he's this man with weaknesses. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead. — Robin Williams

I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters. — Felicity Kendal

When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it. — Selim Nurudeen