Mark Kurlansky Quotes

The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.

Mark Kurlansky

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PeopleRememberInventionAnything

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

HomeUniqueSituationNowAthlete

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

John Boyega

PeopleMeWantLeadBigBeen

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.

John McAfee

BestWorldPhoneKeepHabitsCannot

Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long John Hunter blues, before and after, that's what I am.

John Hunter

I AmTexasLongBluesKnowOut

I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.

Tom Glazer

MoneySongDeepBrotherhoodHumanity

I guess because I'm a washed-up journalist, I always do a lot of research.

Mary Kay Andrews

ResearchAlwaysBecauseGuessLot

Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute you put on that Baby Bjorn, there's no turning back. It's like buying a minivan. You lose a little piece of yourself when you get that Baby Bjorn.

Willie Geist

YourselfBabyYouLoseBackEarly

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

William Robertson Smith

GodMenReligionThinkNationWhole

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Thomas Reed

HopeWorldLegislationGreatest

But it so happens, and it will ever happen so, that they who have lived to serve their country - no matter how weak their efforts may have been - are sure to receive the thanks and blessings of its people.

Thomas Francis Meagher

PeopleBlessingsCountryWillMatter

I don't play the lottery, as I feel I have been really lucky in what I have been able to do in my life, but if I did win, it would be the usual things - helping out the people I love. I'd probably squander a few quid on all sorts of unnecessary crap!

Timothy Spall

LifeLovePeopleWinFeelMy Life

Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA Tour, whether it be media or figuring out how many weeks to play in a row. That's been the biggest adjustment, coming from amateur and college golf.

Rickie Fowler

TimeCollegeManagementGolfLearn

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