"Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have."

-- James MacDonald

#Begging Quotes

“You leave part of yourself on every stage you're on. How could you not live in the air somehow?”

Source : "The Natural" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.
“This is more than just having a vision. You can see the difference in the often-cited way in which Steve Jobs brought in John Sculley to take over Apple. At the time, Sculley was destined to be the head of Pepsico. The clincher came when Jobs asked him, "How many more years of your life do you want to spend making colored water when you can have an opportunity to come here and change the world?"”
“I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.”
“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.”
“[Romeo + Juliet] is relevant when Hamlet and all of that was out, when [William] Shakespeare wrote it. It's relevant now. It's not a shocker, but then it is. I guess so because I'm in it, so it's shocking that it's still on TV. People are still talking about it. Hey, I'm still getting royalty checks from it. It's amazing to me and I hope it continues forever.”
“It is better not to be loved than to be ill-loved or half-loved.”
“Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.”
“When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.”

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