Multi Skilled Quotes & Sayings

Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts. — Lord Chesterfield

The American movie, in part because America's a melting pot, the cultural hodgepodge that America makes, generates movies that have appeal across all international boundaries. And that's really not true for most domestic film industries. It's no longer true of France and Italy, less true than it used to be of the U.K. — Howard Stringer

The Calvinists illustrate their belief by a single illuminating word, Cat-hold, and the Arminians by another, Monkey-hold. Could you find better illustrations? The cat takes up the kitten and carries it in its mouth; the kitten is passive, the cat does everything. But the little monkey holds on to its mother, and clings with might and main. Those who have watched the "cat-hold" in the house, and the "monkey-hold" out in the jungle, can appreciate the accuracy of these two illustrations. — Amy Carmichael

The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world's a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah. — Ann Voskamp

Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. — Benjamin Disraeli

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham — Erik Larson

You have to come from somewhere, but you don't have to go back there anymore. — Robyn Hitchcock

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it. — Marcus Sedgwick

I thinke it not amisse to forewarne you that you thrust as few wordes of many sillables into your verse as may be: and hereunto I might alledge many reasons: first the most auncient English wordes are of one sillable, so that the more monasyllables that you use, the truer Englishman you shall seeme, and the lesse you shall smell of the Inkehorne. — George Gascoigne

If people confess to you their mistakes; Give them a chance, Because you really need those who have learnt what is right. — Mohith Agadi

Everyone knows the best volume of the encyclopedia is the one with ships-S. — Roger Angell