"Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut."

-- Will Cuppy

#Thinking Quotes #Islands Quotes #People Quotes

“If you can predict the rate at which you create (or create and grow) qualified pipeline, and you know your average close rate(s), then you can start predicting your revenue.”
“You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.”
“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.”
“Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.”

Source : "All the King’s Media". www.thenation.com. November 3, 2005.
“I don't want to have people brought in simply because they are black or Asian.”
“Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.”
“I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. On why she was fearful of her husband running for president.”
“Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of self-reliance.”

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