Sermaye Quotes & Sayings

All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn't fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd;nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn't fair. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The country was lumbering towards election day. Strike turned in early on Sunday and watched the day's gaffes, counterclaims and promises being tabulated on his portable TV. There was an air of joylessness in every news report he watched. The national debt was so huge that it was diffcult to comprehend. Cuts were coming, whoever won; deep, painful cuts; and sometimes, with their weasel words, the party leaders reminded Strike of the surgeons who had told him cautiously that he might experience a degree of discomfort; they who would never personally feel the pain that was about to be inflicted. — Robert Galbraith

These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange

In order to be a success in business, there is one thing you must do. You cannot be successful without it. That is WORK. I have not told you anything new. Everyone knows that you cannot be successful in anything without work. Why does not everyone work? Because some lack the one thing that makes men want to work - ENTHUSIASM. That is something no one can give you. You must acquire it yourself, and the only way that you can become enthusiastic about anything is to have a thorough KNOWLEDGE of it. You have never seen an enthusiastic man who was lazy. — Thomas Watson Jr.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano. — Leo Kottke

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. — Barry Neil Kaufman

The whole earth is the brave man's country.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.] — Ovid

I've been taught by everyone I've ever worked with. — Tom Douglas

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays. — George Bernard Shaw

I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work. — Boyd Holbrook

Badgers know where their strength lies. Do you? — Haddon W. Robinson

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings. — Conor McPherson

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living? — Norman Cousins

Nothing that befalls anyone is too senseless to have happened. — Philip Roth