Straduintei Quotes & Sayings

When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there. — Eric Braeden

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure. — Henry Ford

I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu. — Eric Ripert

I went to NYU completely with the idea I wanted to be the next David Copperfield. — Michael Carbonaro

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else. — Werner Herzog

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. — Tom Wolfe

The ego keeps you almost in a drunken state. You don't know who you are because you believe what others say about you. And you don't know who others are because you believe what others say about others. This is the make-believe, illusory world in which we live. Wake up, become more conscious. By becoming conscious you will become a master of your own being. Mastery knows nothing of self, and the self knows nothing of mastery. Let that be absolutely clear to you. My — Osho

Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off — Augusten Burroughs

Communists must be ready at all times to stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people; Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people. — Mao Zedong

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. — Elisabeth Elliot

You can indeed change the world. Every single good thing you do can change the world. — Merrilee Boyack

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul. — Samuel Rutherford

Down to the 23rd page of double dutch! — Sharon M. Draper

No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change. — Carolyn Kizer

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking. — Eoin Colfer