Selected Quotes

192 quotes by 182 authors

Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a… — Daniel Kahneman
Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to… — Vladimir Kramnik
The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color… — Christian Louboutin
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos. — Gustav Mahler
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected. — John L. Phillips
I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central. — Lucy Powell
To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased… — Paula Radcliffe
If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the… — Jerry Rice
But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school,… — Alan Shepard
Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would… — John Sununu
Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the… — Lewis Thomas
Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same. — Bill Toomey
Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not… — Evgeny Morozov
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,… — E E Cummings
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on… — Alberto Manguel
I had hundreds of books under my skin already. Not selected reading, all of it. Some of it could be called trashy. I had been… — Zora Neale Hurston
Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected. — C.J. Langenhoven
Presidents are selected, not elected. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There's much more. There's all that goes beyond â€“ all ... that is Elsewhere â€“ and all that goes back, and back, and back. I… — Lois Lowry

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