John Prescott Quotes

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

John Prescott

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ThinkThoughtBetterYouImportant

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

Jerome Powell

SimpleI AmThinkHumanComplex

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

Michael Dirda

HistoryManMoreReadThanOnce

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.

Sterling K. Brown

DayJobGoFirstNextYears

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Tom Verlaine

UpPianoLikingLessonsSecondGrew

I grew up in Swaledale, in Iowa. Its population was 220 when I was growing up, and it's probably 150 now. I lived in town and sometimes worked on the farms outside of town in the summers.

Tom Drury

Growing UpGrowingNowSometimesUp

We don't have real control over death. You could die of a heart attack, a building could fall on you, you could be in an accident, you could have a fatal disease. So, how should you conduct your life? You just go ahead and live, taking reasonable precautions - like handling the mail more carefully.

Rudy Giuliani

LifeLiveHeartDeathControlDie

I really learned that, when I got into television, I really learned the power, how deeply it affects people to see themselves on television, to see something that they can relate to, that they feel is like them in some way; people feel validated. Its not a little thing. It really means a lot to people. It actually can change people.

Winnie Holzman

ChangePowerPeopleFeelTelevision

I don't startle easily.

Penny Marshall

EasilyStartle

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Sharon Creech

TruthChildrenCollegeGameLearn

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

Selma Blair

FunGoMoviesScared

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Richard Corliss

LifeBusinessSoulArtistFindSkin

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Jane Smiley

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