#sf

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#dysfunctional #generic #i #i think #know

Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald. ↗

— James Rollins

#author #blood #career #considered #fiction

The successful golfers - they're like astronauts or pilots. They have that demeanor that they can focus and stay within that one moment and nothing distracts them. That's not me. ↗

— Ray Romano

#demeanor #distracts #focus #golfers #like

I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#best #best way #bottom #go #i

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #being #believe #constitution #economy

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#economic #economic values #freedom #government #i

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#air #bad #careers #enough #filled

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about. ↗

— David Rose

#anything #bring #ensure #even #every

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#carelessness #like #looks #lose #may

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman