"If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet."

-- George Harrison

#Feet Quotes #Car Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”
“When I'm hiring someone I look for magic and a spark. Little things that intuitively give me a gut feeling that this person will go to the ends of the earth to accomplish the task at hand”

Source : "Tommy Mottola: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 3013.
“After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way.”
“I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.”
“The Things That Matter convincingly lays out Nate Berkusâ€™s philosophy that things do matter. Our homes tell our stories, they reflect the places weâ€™ve been and the people weâ€™ve loved along the wayâ€”and there can be no more beautiful design for living than that.”
“Give unqualified assent to no propositions but those the truth of which is so clear and distinct that they cannot be doubted. The enunciation of this first great commandment of science consecrated doubt.”
“Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.”
“I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.”

Source : "The Lawmen". Book by Alton Pryor (p. 103), 2006.

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