Ferdinand Mount Quotes

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

Ferdinand Mount

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 2, 1939

Topics

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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit. I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

John Burroughs

LifeAgeSunshineYouthVoiceEarly

Rotten Tomatoes is such a great website, in that it has one foot in the Internet world and one foot in the cinema world, and it keeps its grounding between them just perfectly.

John Lasseter

GreatWorldInternetWebsiteCinema

If you stand for something you will have people for you and people against you. But if you stand for nothing you will have nobody for you and nobody against you.

Maurice Saatchi

PeopleStandYouNobodyNothing

Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you.

Robert Henri

PastLanguageHelpYouFallKnow

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions.

Mike Pence

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My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

ParentsFactoryWereWorked

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

Jason Fried

WorldFinancialRealityKnowRisk

My records are one thing. My live performances are something totally different because they're very improvised performances.

Dianne Reeves

LiveSomethingDifferentOne Thing

I've always been in a rebel.

Donnie Yen

RebelAlwaysBeen

Two great and terrible truths of war are these: War is easy to enter into, but difficult to end. And ultimately, in war there are no winners.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

GreatWarEndEasyDifficultTwo

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Chuck Jones

BusinessComedyVeryStringent

I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.

Ashish Sharma

I AmTheatreAlwaysActWhereRole

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