Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

MoneyHomelessTruckBagLivingEat

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

Joey Skaggs

WorkAlwaysNextFavoritePiece

I think everybody's had that feeling of sitting in a theater, in a dark room, with other strangers, watching a very powerful film, and they felt that feeling of transformation.

Jehane Noujaim

TransformationThinkPowerfulDark

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Meg Tilly

WorkChildrenYearYouSometimes

The challenge to our national economies and the collective economy of Europe will become - with the growth of China and the continuing productivity growth of the US - even more intense in the decades to come.

John Hutton

GrowthChallengeWillBecomeEconomy

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Michael Caine

PresentNeverFaultWithoutAbsent

When I ate slowly and deliberately, giving myself time to consider whether I actually wanted that next bite, I often discovered that I didn't.

Ruth Reichl

TimeMyselfGivingNextBiteSlowly

When I was 11 years old, I was playing for the Lierse youth team, and one of the parents from the other team literally tried to stop me from going on the pitch. He was like, 'How old is this kid? Where is his ID? Where is he from?'

Romelu Lukaku

ParentsMeTeamYouthStopKid

One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.

Rupert Murdoch

BusinessSupportPoliticalJust

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Rush Limbaugh

GoodTeacherGreatPolicePeople

I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

Maryanne Wolf

MeThoughtsThinkingBackKnowWant

All I know is, I think I would like to continue to do public service.

Mohamed ElBaradei

ServicePublic ServiceThinkKnow

I've had an absolutely magical run.

Judy Sheindlin

RunMagicalAbsolutelyHad

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jeanne Marie Laskas