"The richest man in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar he ever earned. It's the man who still has his best friend."

-- Martha Mason

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.”
“I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”
“Pity is like eating mustard without beef.”
“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”
“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.22, St. Martin's Press
“I think it's the most extraordinary studio around. I would love to do my next project with Pixar.”
“I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.”

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