Isura Canada Quotes & Sayings

If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point. — Corra May Harris

America is fascinated with seeing people have nothing and turn it to something. — Chamillionaire

Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It is not the New Inquisition which is our enemy today; it is hereditary Privilege. It is not Superstition, but Big Business which makes use of Superstition as a wolf makes use of sheep's clothing. — Upton Sinclair

Do you mind if I ask you a question, darlin'?"
"Only if you stop calling me darlin'"
"Now where I come from that's a term of endearment."
"Really? Well, where I come from motherfucker is a term of endearment. Want me to start calling you that? — Shelly Laurenston

As every golfer knows, no one ever lost his mind over one shot. It is rather the gradual process of shot after shot watching your score go to tatters - knowing that you have found a different way to bogey each hole. — Thomas Boswell

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art. — Tim Crouch

But I wouldn't get him close, and I would never show him my heart. — Jodi Picoult

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies. — Franz Kafka

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world. — Marta Andreasen

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep. — Aaron Levie

I used to think there was no time like the present. I used to think there was no time but the present. Now I know better - or different, anyway. In the end, the past will always be there. The past is all there is: the present never sticks around for long enough, and the future is anybody's guess. In time, you always have to hand it to the past. It always gets you in the end. — Martin Amis

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job. — Julie Nixon Eisenhower

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things. — Jose Maria Aznar

[Lauren Bacall] and Bogie seemed to have the most enormous opinion of each other's charms, and when they fought it was with the utter confidence of two cats locked deliciously in the same cage. — Katharine Hepburn