"A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Men Quotes #Two Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.”

Source : Katharine Whitehorn (1981). “View from a Column”
“Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.”

Source : Alexander Gardner (1866). “Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War”, p.11, Courier Corporation
“My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.”
“Sometimes I wish I could get fired.”

Source : "Trey Parker & Matt Stone". Interview with Aaron Franco, www.avclub.com. March 19, 2008.
“When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.”
“This is Now. Now is, all there is. Don't wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire.”
“If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.”
“You become what you believe.”

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