Trubshawe Quotes & Sayings

If the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on, and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away "operating." He may be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important, that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found in the flow of events. — Peter F. Drucker

The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it. — Richard Dawkins

I love anything that kind of removes me from myself and employs something else. So, I love accents and I love pretending. — Jamie Bell

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me. — Mstislav Rostropovich

Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life. — David Niven

I know I'm a person who's been bugged for years about the up and down weight thing. — Oprah Winfrey

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. — Vic Braden

I like the idea of these bad boys having soft nougat centers. — J.W. Becton

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land. — James Sallis

I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. — Bobby Green

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake. — Suzanne Collins

This is what men must do. Their true job."
"What's that?"
"Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest."
"Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go. — Lance Weller

The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises. — Paul Scott

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training. — June Squibb

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo. — Hamza Yusuf

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. — Alec Waugh