Maximovalor Quotes & Sayings

Mick required far less hand-holding than Michael. Signing the Stones, though, had required a full frontal assault worthy of General Patton, one of my heroes. The final battle exploded at the Ritz Hotel in Paris back in '83. After months of relentless pursuit, I had them. All they had to do was sign when suddenly at 3 A.M. Mick goes mental and calls me a "stupid motherfuckin' record executive." I lose it. I reach for his throat. I have a vision of punching out all ninety-eight pounds of him. I stop myself, envisioning tomorrow's headline - "Yetnikoff Kills Jagger." Jagger relents, signs and from then on it's wine and roses. It was Mick - wily and witty Mick - who later that year plotted with my girlfriend, the one called Boom Boom, to throw me a surprise fiftieth birthday bash where Henny Youngman emceed and Jon Peters, Barbra — Walter Yetnikoff

Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages — Loretta Chase

How, I asked myself, do you convince men and women who live comfortably to change a system that provides their comforts
even when they know about EHMs and jackals, when they understand that attached to their comforts are terrible price tags? Where do you find words to empower them to stand up to a force like the corporatocracy? How do you inspire them to take actions that will bend the corporations to the will of the people? — John Perkins

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench

They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. — Kahlil Gibran

The cause of Labour is the cause of Ireland, and the cause of Ireland is the cause of Labour — James Connolly

Is this my "getting over that person" moment? Am I over Jag? But it hasn't been nine and a half years yet. — Harper Bentley

They were ... well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard. — Tom Wolfe

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me. — Jeremy Irons

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end. — Gwen Stefani

Ghettos have their own characteristics and consequences :
be they physical. social, intellectual or mental, those who live in them always nurture projection of themselves or world around them that are more imaginary than true.
In the ghettos of the intellect and idealistic theories, there are a lot of intertolerant and racist people who do not realize that they are. — Tariq Ramadan

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer. — Pope John Paul II

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave. — Emily Bronte

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking. — Jonathan Tucker

People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon instead your personal fears and desires ... and you, the real you, will become freed, released from the bonds of your own mind. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami