"Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

-- Horatio Nelson

#Hands Quotes #Arms Quotes #Haste Quotes

“I never can understand how anyone can not smoke it deprives a man of the best part of life. With a good cigar in his mouth a man is perfectly safe, nothing can touch him, literally.”
“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.”
“My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way or another, deals with information as an economic variable, both as to its production and as to its use.”
“Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.”
“Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, Id like to work with him again someday.”
“The futureâ€™s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.”
“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
“I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of Final Cut Pro editing software and made my first feature film, "Street Fight." It followed a crazy, racially charged mayoral election in Newark, NJ in which a young guy named Cory Booker was taking on the political machine of that city. It went on to be nominated for an Oscar and Emmy and was a real example of DIY film-making.”

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