Sputnik Crisis Quotes & Sayings

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude, — Jose Mourinho

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion. — Benjamin Jowett

To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place ... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. — Elliot Erwitt

When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?' ... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that. — Condoleezza Rice

You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' order of things in the history of post-war-N.Y. painting. — Deborah Kass

Though the continued march of intellect and education have nearly obliterated from the mind of the Scots a belief in the marvelous, still a love of the supernatural lingers among the more mountainous districts of the northern kingdom; for 'the Schoolmaster' finds it no easy task, even when aided by all the light of science, to uproot the prejudices of more than two thousand years. ("The Phantom Regiment") — James Grant

The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks and gait, but mostly from bearing and demeanor, that fine-grained mark that culture stamps on people. (Chapter 17) — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The best thing about writing is the reader — Girish Kohli

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. — Judy Blume

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer. — Yannick Noah