Share After about three lessons the voice teacher said, “Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.” That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
Best Friend Quotes
Share Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.~Eleanor Roosevelt You can always tell a real friend; when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.~Laurence Sterne You are not very good if you are not better [...]
P. J. O’Rourke Quotes
Share When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money. The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or [...]
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Share If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Hope is necessary in every condition. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. He who makes [...]
W Edwards Deming Quotes
Share These are some quotes on quality by quality pioneer W Edwards Deming of the popular deming awards: It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. Management by results is confusing special causes with common causes. The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs. Learning is [...]
Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
Share Realists do not fear the results of their study. We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. [...]
Pedro Almodovar Quotes
Share I hardly ever go back because there I don’t return as an acclaimed director, but rather as a little boy. There, I still feel like a little boy. Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk [...]