"I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping."

-- Vance Gilbert

#People Quotes #Shipping Quotes #Barnacles Quotes

“Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.”
“Everyone should write a book, if only to see how much work goes into even the slight volume I send you.”
“Tony Blair a couple years ago was going around apologizing for everything. He apologized for the Irish potato famine. The Canadian government apologized for how it treated Indian school children.When is the Democratic Party going to apologize for being the biggest slave-holding-supporting institution on the planet and sticking with racism for the century after the abolition of slavery?”
“Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.”
“I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”
“You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.”
“When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?”
“Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.”

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