Salchert Quotes & Sayings

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck. — Shia Labeouf

There's some sort of exchange that goes on between human beings that is one of the highest things we do. — Coleman Barks

If we had known our love would come to this we could have saved our hearts the hurt of wasted years. — Blake Shelton

Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our families. And discussions about the doctrines and principles in the Book of Mormon provide opportunities for parents to observe their children, to listen to them, to learn from them, and to teach them. — David A. Bednar

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? — John Lasseter

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you. — Buzz Aldrin

Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave. — Paul Blobel

For instance, Objectivists will often hear a question such as: "What will be done about the poor or the handicapped in a free society?" The altruist-collectivist premise, implicit in that question, is that men are "their brothers' keepers" and that the misfortune of some is a mortgage on others. The questioner is ignoring or evading the basic premises of Objectivist ethics and is attempting to switch the discussion onto his own collectivist base. Observe that he does not ask: "Should anything be done?" but: "What will be done?" - as if the collectivist premise had been tacitly accepted and all that remains is a discussion of the means to implement it. Once, when Barbara Branden was asked by a student: "What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?" - she answered: "If you want to help them, you will not be stopped. — Anonymous

I am a person always full of contradictions ... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer. — Ba Jin

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. — Jane Brody

Basic religion is the reason we have morals. — Brandon Flowers

... a sussuration of expectation ... — Terry Pratchett

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met. — Farrah Fawcett

If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot. — Jami Gertz