"With my brains and your looks, we could go places."

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Source : "Fictional character: Frank Chambers". "The Postman Always Rings Twice", www.imdb.com. 1946.

John Garfield

#Work Quotes #Brain Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.”
“Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.”
“Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.”
“Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.”
“In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes”
“What we're focusing on is the images that were in people's minds being replaced by fresh images, to make way for the rebirth of New Orleans. We're showing the other side.”
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.”
“There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later,”

Source : Leon Levy, Eugene Linden (2009). “The Mind of Wall Street: A Legendary Financier on the Perils of Greed and the Mysteries of the Market”, p.8, PublicAffairs

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