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Harold Wilson Quotes

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: english
Birth: March 11, 1916 - May 24, 1995

Topics

History Sleep Successful Prime Sense

When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is odd, because I was a full-grown woman, and my hair was short and blond. Still, sitting on the black leather sofa in his chambers, I remember shrinking.

Woman Child Hair Small Black Short

After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.

Work Creative Writing Finishing Half

I rode a horse once when I was young, and I fell off. I never wanted to ride a horse again.

Ride Horse Young Never Off Again

Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.

Nature Scenery Human Nature Human

Creativity is, after all, lauded as the engine of business innovation.

Business Innovation Creativity Engine

I think that by and large chess players have been very kind. Like I said there have been a few incidents, but they certainly didn't serve to bring me down any.

Me Think Down Said Chess Kind

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And even though I was born in Cyprus, my parents were American, and so I was an outsider in the land of my birth.

Childhood Parents American Born Land

In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

Stephanie Coontz

Life Family Good Memories Pain Warm

In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.

Change Struggle Lose Security Take

I admire Grover Norquist. I think he's done a lot of good.

Good Think Done Admire He I Think

I've always been into looking different.

Looking Always Different Been

Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.

Monica Bellucci

Giving Year Listen Birth Without

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