Quotes with tragedy-in-the-making

Quotes 161 till 180 of 666.

  • Robert Half Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Springsteen Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free?
    If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me
    Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street?
    If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me.
    Working On A Dream (2009) The Wrestler
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ernest Hemingway Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Lord Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
    - +
     0
  • Benny Blanco Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
    Benny Blanco
    American record producer, DJ, songwriter (1988 - )
    - +
     0
  • Herbert Hoover Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
    - +
     0
  • Bradley Denton How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Benito Mussolini I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
    As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.
    Othello I, 1
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Jack Handey I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jean Louis Agassiz I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
    Jean Louis Agassiz
    Swiss-American biologist and geologist (1807 - 1873)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Stevenson I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
    - +
     0
  • The Creator Tyler I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.
    - +
     0
  • Bruce Dickinson I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
    - +
     0
  • Burnie Burns I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alanis Morissette I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
    - +
     0
  • Don Alan Pennebaker I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists - there's no room for democracy in making film.
    - +
     0
  • John D. Rockefeller I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
    - +
     0
All tragedy-in-the-making famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 9)