Druskin Quotes & Sayings

There were some amazing items for sale: stones on which the virtuous could stumble, mirrors that increased one's own sense of importance and spectacles that diminished other people's importance. Hanging on the wall were a few other prize objects: a dagger with a curved blade for stabbing people in the back and tape recorders that recorded only gossip and lies. — Paulo Coelho

If you want to live and you want to prosper, you've got to be ambitious. You've got to be ready to sacrifice leisure and pleasure, and you've got to plan ahead. I was forty years old before I had any money at all. But these things don't happen overnight. Now, how many people are there who will wait that long to be successful, and work all the time? Not very many. Maybe they're right. Maybe I'm a bloody fool. But I don't think I am. — Roy Thomson

What's amazing is that they make a market in this fantasy stuff," said Druskin. "It's not a real asset. — Michael Lewis

I'm here on this Planet for Give Love to Others, why They are Here I not Ask and Don't Know. — Jan Jansen

God knows nothing we don't know.
We gave him every word he ever said. — Stephen Dunn

If someone where playing tennis you wouldn't walk onto the court and begin to have a conversion with them, likewise I think reading is at least as important as a game of tennis. — Ian McEwan

For the most part, editors no longer view 'Doonesbury' as a rolling provocation, which is fine by me. It makes no sense to intentionally antagonize the very people on whose support you most depend. — Garry Trudeau

Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle. — Adrian Pasdar

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars. — Wilt Chamberlain

Mo leannan. You are sweeter than honey to a black-hearted knight." - Colin — Amy Jarecki

Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you're willing to close your heart over it. — Michael A. Singer

Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this earth brought contamination to the solitude of a soul. — Joseph Conrad

Impatience is racing at misery full speed. — Richelle E. Goodrich