#chase

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#been #blessed #book #close #could

I hate to admit that. I want to win every race, but I know that's not possible. To be in the top 25 is realistic if we have any luck this year. But anything to be in the chase or something like that is very unrealistic. ↗

— Roger Staubach

#any #anything #chase #every #hate

One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live. ↗

— Patrick Swayze

#chase #chasing #going #i #live

As for dialogue, I think it keeps things moving to cut to the chase. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#cut #dialogue #i #i think #keeps

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

#books #costly #fix #how #market

Every year the State will be the dog that chases its own tail... engaging in a futile attempt to close a perpetual budget gap. ↗

— Richard J. Codey

#budget #chases #close #dog #engaging

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. ↗

— Branch Rickey

#come #easy #effort #joy #premium

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#also #appropriation #books #buy #buying

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#age