Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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G K Chesterton: Real pessimist
“The real pessimist is not he who is weary of evil, but he who is weary of good.” —G K Chesterton.
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Freddie Mercury: Simply grew and grew
“In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.” —Freddie Mercury.
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Simon Cowell: Social networking is brilliant
“For the music business, social networking is brilliant. Just when you think it’s doom and gloom and you have to spend millions of pounds on marketing and this and that, you have this amazing thing now called fan power. The whole world is linked through a laptop. It’s amazing. And it’s free. I love it.…
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Gene Simmons: Only job kids have
“The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.” —Gene Simmons.
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Martha McSally: I don’t think so. I would hope not
“If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, ‘It’s just a cultural thing’? I don’t think so. I would hope not.” —Martha McSally.
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Meghan McCain: No matter how many roller coasters
‘As much as the Republicans try to paint Democrats as desiring some Marxist utopia, this place is basically that. Just replace the word “comrade” with “Christian.” There’s nothing wrong with either dream, I suppose, but that’s all they are. Utopias don’t exist in real life, regardless of their political or religious leanings, no matter how…
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Warren Buffett: Wild things
“We generally believe you can just see anything in markets. I mean, it’s just extraordinary what happens in markets over time. It gets sorted out eventually, but we have seen companies sell for tens of billion dollars that are worthless. And at times, we have seen things sell for…literally 20 percent or 25 percent of…
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G K Chesterton: Next great heresy
“The next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on morality; and especially sexual morality.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Confessional-box
“As a matter of fact, a confessional-box bears the same relation to confession that a bathing-machine bears to bathing; it makes it slightly safer and more decorous. As bathing would exist everywhere if there were no machines, so confession would exist if there were no boxes.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Catholicism and Protestantism
“Catholicism and Protestantism are two moral and intellectual forces standing for tendencies that are as old as life and equally worth living.” —G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: No more dignified
“A man running after salvation can no more be dignified than a man running after his hat.” —G K Chesterton.
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Bobbie Gentry: Euphemism
“Euphemism is a euphemism for lying.” —Bobbie Gentry, singer and songwriter (b. 27 Jul 1944).
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr: Mind of a bigot
“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (29 Aug 1809-1894).
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Hrithik Roshan: It will come out
“Whatever you are inside, the good and bad will manifest in the outside world. It will come out in some way. It will come out in your work. It will come out in words. It will come out.” —Hrithik Roshan.
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Nicolas Hulot: Promises will not be enough
“I have warned everyone. Words will not be enough. Promises will also not be enough.” —Nicolas Hulot.
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Chrystia Freeland: Changes
“Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.” —Chrystia Freeland.
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Daryl Hannah: Pretend it’s not there
“A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar – you pretend it’s not there.” —Daryl Hannah.
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Eddie Murphy: Filter
“I haven’t read a newspaper in 20 years. I don’t look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.” —Eddie Murphy.
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Michael Jackson: Doesn’t sell
“People write negatives things, cause they feel that’s what sells. Good news to them, doesn’t sell.” —Michael Jackson.
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Adam Sandler: Microphone
“Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!” —Adam Sandler.
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Louis C K: Rickety ladder
“Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.” —Louis C. K.
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Aretha Franklin: Being the Queen
“Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.” —Aretha Franklin.
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Warren Buffett: No book value
“The very best businesses, the really wonderful businesses, require no book value…We want to buy businesses, really, that will deliver more and more cash and not need to retain cash, which is what builds up book value over time. Admittedly, the prices of marketable securities, at any given time, are not a great indication of…
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G K Chesterton: Deliberate pursuit of pleasure
“There is nothing more consciously dreary than the deliberate pursuit of pleasure.” —G K Chesterton.
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Ingrid Bergman: Lovely trick
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” —Ingrid Bergman.
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George O’Keeffe: Too momentary
“I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary.” —Georgia O’Keeffe, artist.
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G K Chesterton: Courage
“The basis of the artistic as of the ethical virtues is courage, and of courage there is only one certain and splendid signal — failure.” —G K Chesterton.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ignorance in action
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832).
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Cole Sprouse: Honest criticism
“If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you’re never going to improve.” —Cole Sprouse.
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Pauline Hanson: Get a job in the real world
“I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.” —Pauline Hanson.
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Kristin Cavallari: Headlines
“Headlines are so great in a sense that they can take a little bit from an article completely out of context and blow it into something it’s not. Some people really only read headlines.” —Kristin Cavallari.
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C S Lewis: What mortals misunderstand
‘That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, “No future bliss can make up for it” not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.’ —C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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C S Lewis: To help madmen
“The sane would do no good if they made themselves mad to help madmen.” —C S Lewis, The Great Divorce.
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Simon Sinek: Trust
“Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own personal gain.” —Simon Sinek.
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Seneca: We steel ourselves
“No one learns to lie down contentedly in a bed of roses, if the need arises, but rather we steel ourselves for this: to not betray a confidence under torture, or to stand guard, though wounded, through the night if the need arises, without even leaning on an upright spear, since sleep has a way…
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Nothing great accomplished without passion
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.” —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, philosopher (27 Aug 1770-1831).
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John McCain: Character is destiny
“It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is all that really passes for destiny. And you choose it.” — John McCain from his book Character is Destiny.
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C S Lewis: Silent
“I challenge the people I respect, but to those who show neither the capacity nor willingness to change, I am silent.” —C S Lewis.
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Julie Bishop: Tobacco companies
“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.” —Julie Bishop.
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Halsey: That’s you
“The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that’s you.” —Halsey.
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Shawn Mendes: If you wanna be a celebrity
“Someone was like, ‘If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.’ And I was like, ‘Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.’” —Shawn Mendes.
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Pope Francis: Crisscrossed by roads
“This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good.” —Pope Francis.
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Kevin Smith: Simply be yourself
“Don’t let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.” —Kevin Smith.
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Jimmy Carter: Globalization
“Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” —Jimmy Carter.
