Great Danny Blanchflower Quotes & Sayings

I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime. — Yves Behar

Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it. — Lenny Bruce

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations ... and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation. — Loren C. Dunn

At the same time, Ambrosio had given me a brief glimpse of a different, compelling sort of life, a life in which there seemed to be more time for family and conversation, for stories and food, a life I was desperate to lead now as an antidote to my own. It was okay to squander a day, a week, a year, sitting in that telling room, summoning ghosts, because no one saw it as squandering. No, if you squinted a little bit, maybe what seemed like wasted time was, in fact, true happiness. — Michael Paterniti

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers. — Malcolm Gladwell

Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such. — Maryse Alberti

If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying to say the same things and that the writer is only a man who says out loud what other people think or whisper. — Eugene Ionesco

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. — Paracelsus

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity. — Andrew Young

Let's go in, let's totally destroy Cuba. — Robert McNamara