Bluesman Walker Quotes & Sayings

A star wants to see himself rise to the top.
A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top. — Simon Sinek

My next film is always shaped by the last one ... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture. — Robert Benton

Musical 'fusion' projects have earned themselves a bad name, but that's mainly because they often involve pop artists conscripting orchestras to play unimaginative backdrops to their acts. What's really exciting is when you spark off a dialogue between very different musical forces. — Charles Hazlewood

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. — Rick Pitino

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well. — Sarah Josepha Hale

It's the kissing! The stupid kissing! It's like he kissed all the vital brain cells right out of my head! — Jill Shalvis

You can be whatever you want to be, Gen. Some people seem born to a profession. Others are so blessed in character and intelligence that they must choose. The one is miserable until he finds his calling, the other miserable until he has tried them all. — Brian K. Fuller

I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!' — Kaley Cuoco

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended. — Martyn V. Halm

Expectation rather than the reality of the present is the special trouble of those business men who live entirely to make money. So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live. Instead of earning a living they are mostly earning an earning, and thus when the time comes to relax they are unable to do so. Many a "successful" man is bored and miserable when he retires, and returns to his work only to prevent a younger man from taking his place. — Alan W. Watts

What is not recorded is not remembered. — Benazir Bhutto

But you can't be too careful of these strange new ideas and new things. You must not tamper with them. If you try to understand them, they may entangle and get hold of you, and then where will you be? Hide your mind from them, and hide them from your mind. Stick to the plain common sense of life. There will always be a tomorrow rather like today. At least so far there always has been a fairly similar tomorrow. Once or twice lately there have been jolts ...
Try not to notice these jolts.
'It is no good meeting trouble halfway. — H.G.Wells

Books inspire a man to embrace the world or flee it. They start wars and end them. They make the men and women who write and publish them vast fortunes, and nearly as quickly can drive them into madness and despair. Stay away from what you do not fathom from now on ... — Matthew Pearl

You've no idea how wonderful toilet paper is until it's taken away from you by an unfeeling universe. I think it's the defining characteristic of human civilization, the ability to manufacture something decent to wipe your ass on. — Peter F. Hamilton