Inxs Lead Quotes & Sayings

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget - but the nuggets are the reward. — Robert A. Heinlein

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug. — Mercedes McCambridge

'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy. — Nathan Fillion

That man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others ... Many of the persons commonly considered wealthy are, in reality, no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes, they being inherently and eternally incapable of wealth. — Alain De Botton

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways. — Scott Glenn

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season). — Milan Kundera

The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea. — Michael Finkel

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure. — George Clooney

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself. — Gjon Mili