Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Richard V. Allen Quotes

A skilled Transition Team leader will set the general goals for a Transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement those goals.

Richard V. Allen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american

Topics

Goals Leader Power Team Transition

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Jerry Lewis

Heart Story You Damn Mean Line

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

Writing Song Go Up Along Stuff

I have a terrible superstition of writing things down.

Andrew Scott

Writing Down Things Terrible

The travel book is a convenient metaphor for life, with its optimistic beginning or departure, its determined striving, and its reflective conclusion. Journeys change travellers just as a good travel book can change readers.

Rory MacLean

Life Change Good Beginning Travel

My parents gave up things for me when I was growing up.

Roberto Firmino

Parents Me Growing Up Growing Up

As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home.

Mary Pilon

Family Love Home Journey Me View

I do think that the Constitution and the traditions of this country constrain all of us - those of us in Congress and those of us in the White House - from some of our impulses, shall I say, that we'd like to pursue.

Mitch McConnell

Constitution Think House White Say

I love to wear original pieces you can't find just anywhere.

China Anne McClain

Love You Find Pieces Wear Original

That's what helps me keep playing: the idea of giving something to others. Because personally, I've had my fill.

Chet Faker

Me Giving Others Playing Something

You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.

Christoph Waltz

Character Beard Self-Confidence You

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Chuck Jones

Value Flowers Me Birds Unexpected

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

Antony Beevor

Family Mother Job Writing Thought