Profittorial Quotes & Sayings

I have a gift for inventing fantasies with extraordinary speed. — Paulo Coelho

Everything that happens to us, everything that we say or hear, everything that we see with our own eyes or we articulate with our tongue, everything that enters through our ears, everything we are witness to (and for which we are therefore partially responsible) must find a recipient outside ourselves and we choose that recipient according to what happens, or what we are told or even according to what we ourselves say. Each thing must be told to someone - though not necessarily to the same person - and each thing will undergo a selection process, the way someone out shopping might scrutinize, set aside, and assess presents for the season to come. Everything must be told at least once, although ... it must be told when the time is right, or, which comes to the same thing, at the right moment, and sometimes, if you fail to recognize that right moment or deliberately let it pass, there will never again be another. — Javier Marias

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. — Simon Armitage

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person. — Mark Prior

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values. — Philip Selznick

You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care. — Sam Altman

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do. — Gianni Versace

I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League]. — Katie Aselton

Believer, though all things are apparently against thee, rest assured that God has made a reservation on thy behalf; in the roll of thy griefs there is a saving clause. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway? — Janet Fitch

People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely. — Raghu Karnad

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. — Kirk Hammett

[Ezekiel 1:1a] Hebrew On the fifth day of the fourth month, of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of dates in Ezekiel can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Babylonian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on July 31, 593 B.C. — Anonymous

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All one great big lie. — Bernard Madoff