Exocet Quotes & Sayings

When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy ... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober. — Willie Dixon

Children should be able to do their own experimenting and their own research. Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it himself, he must re-invent it. Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand that which we allow him to discover by himself will remain with him visibly for the rest of his life. — Jean Piaget

The smell of her hair lingered just out of reach of his memory and left him with a nervous hum resonating throughout his body like a child forced to sit in church while the sun was shining outside on a perfectly good summer's day. — Erik Tomblin

I refuse to cater to the bullshit of innocence. — Maurice Sendak

I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,
I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes. — Frances Power Cobbe

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do. — Sally Ride

If you honestly believe that," said Thorne, stowing the gun again, "then you really don't recognize true value when you see it. — Marissa Meyer

Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world. — Brian Tracy

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. — Ruth Benedict

The lesson here, and my advice for other developers, is to find a way that you can quantify for people what your product is worth. We were leery to do it ourselves, but being near Vetro when they did, the auction was a good technique for that. No one wants to be first, and the auction proved to people that others were buying and gave them that boost of confidence they needed. — Bob Horner

People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity. — Diane Setterfield

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did. — James Norton