Imp Master Quotes & Sayings

One morning after a beautiful fall of snow, I had reason to write a letter to an acquaintance, but I omitted to make any mention of the snow. I was delighted when she responded, 'Do you expect me to pay any attention to the words of someone so perverse that he fails to enquire how I find this snowy landscape? What deplorable insensitivity! — Yoshida Kenko

I am the gatekeeper of my own destiny and I will have my glory days in the hot sun — Nacho LIbre

Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. — Mike Ditka

I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland. — Brian O'Driscoll

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are among the first to live and work after things fall apart. — Martin Amis

In fashion, there are so many gangs, if you identify too much with one, you get caught - I would lose my freedom. — Daphne Guinness

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens. — Thucydides

Stocks are the things to own over time. Productivity will increase and stocks will increase with it. There are only a few things you can do wrong. One is to buy or sell at the wrong time. Paying high fees is the other way to get killed. The best way to avoid both of these is to buy a low-cost index fund, and buy it over time. Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy, but don't think you can outsmart the market. If a cross-section of American industry is going to do well over time, then why try to pick the little beauties and think you can do better? Very few people should be active investors. — Alice Schroeder

A really useful quality to have as an actor is a lack of self-awareness. I try and get into the character's thinking, and some of them just aren't really that bothered about how they come across or aware of how they come across. — Monica Dolan

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. — Juan Antonio Samaranch

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate. — China Mieville