Anita Brookner Quotes

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

Anita Brookner

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LifeTimeWritingWinningGameBusy

I knew what the Dodgers uniform represented as a kid growing up in Brooklyn.

Joe Torre

Growing UpBrooklynUniformGrowing

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the 'Guardian' hating me. I like it when I read they want me to die painfully. Then I think I've really got under their skin. It's like annoying a teacher. Once they've shown signs of weakness, you really can go for them.

Jeremy Clarkson

ChildrenTeacherMeThinkLovedDie

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

MindHumanHuman MindResourceOur

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies.

Melanie Laurent

HateMeNowEnemiesJustMade

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.

John Lydon

GoodChildMeEndYouFeeling

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve. If a large number of our children grow up into frustration and poverty, we must expect to pay the price.

Robert Kennedy

ChildrenFrustrationGrowPovertyUp

The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

Sparky Anderson

ManagerWayNeverPlayersMake

Over the last few years, I've started to look more closely at the way coaches work to learn from them - not just here at the club but with the international team as well.

Robin Van Persie

WorkTeamLearnLookWayMore

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Jason Calacanis

WillWellTwitterVersionCompanies

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

WorkTeacherHistoryHappyParents

It's incorrect to think of bacteria as these asocial, single cells. They are individual cells, but they act in communities, exactly the way people do.

Bonnie Bassler

PeopleThinkWaySingleIndividual

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

MoreLeisureBusier

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