Match Point Famous Quotes & Sayings

For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker. — Meghan Daum

If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day. — John Sayles

Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way. — Steven Rinella

If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons. — Seth Godin

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow ... — Haile Selassie

You know what is so appealing about you, in a twisted, messed up kind of way?"
"What's that?"
"You have no idea how tactless you are."
"Well. I have some idea," I grumble. — Lindy Zart

Americans are slow to anger, but once they do get angry, they are impossible to stop. — Kathleen Troia McFarland

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them. — Imelda May

Be glad, be gracious, be grateful. — Paula Scanland

He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs ... This is the smell I love. This and fresh-cut clover, the crushed sage as you ride after cattle, wood-smoke and the burning leaves of autumn. That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. Which would you rather smell? Sweet grass the Indians used in their baskets? Smoked leather? The odor of the ground in the spring after rain? The smell of the sea as you walk through the gorse on a headland in Galicia? Or the wind from the land as you come in toward Cuba in the dark? That was the odor of cactus flowers, mimosa and the sea-grape shrubs. Or would you rather smell frying bacon in the morning when you are hungry? Or coffee in the morning? Or a Jonathan apple as you bit into it? Or a cider mill in the grinding, or bread fresh from the oven? — Ernest Hemingway,

A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. — Robert Reich

Hope is the assurance of the promise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't think that care homes are all rotten old places that ought to be shut down. — Judi Dench

You can't repair character flaws with positive social media posts — Bernard Kelvin Clive

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? — H.L. Mencken