“Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.” IfsKnowsWayLongPlansFiguresDespairLong TimeYeahMy WaySupposed To Be Author:Melissa Manchester
“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.” ShouldLongAmericaPresidentTermSuccessfulPlansHigherTaxesElementsFinancialBudgetsLong TermFundWealthyPresident ObamaRevenueRecessions Author:Steven Rattner
“I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.” WritingLongSpacePlansBenefitsNarrative Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Say, this new home building idea of President Hoover's sounds good. They are working out a lot of beneficial things. The only thing is it took 'em so long to think of any of 'em. We ought to have plans in case of depression, just like we do in case of fire, 'Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit.'” ThinkingLongIdeasHomeRunningSoundPresidentWalksBusinessCasesFirePlansBuildingOughtWork OutEmsBeneficialExitNew HomeHoover Author:Will Rogers
“I had a truly horrible dream last night ... [Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson and I] were on our way to a TV studio for a debate about his long-time working friendship with the powerful Bush family from Texas and how it might affect the next Bush presidency when The Terminator seizes power in Sacramento and tries to hand over the state's 54 electoral votes by election day in 2004. That is the basic plan behind Schwarzenegger running. He doesn't want to be Governor, he just wants the electoral votes to go to Bush this time.” WayWantTryingLongStatesDreamHandsMightRunningLastsNightNextPowerfulBehindsPlansTvsLong TimeVoteElectionStudiosDebateHorribleTexasGovernorsPresidencyLast NightMikeElection DayTysonSchwarzeneggerSacramento Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great realities, and against them we see our human problems in a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we should find less time and inclination to plan for our own destruction.” IfsMenShouldYearsFirstsHumansLongDifferentProblemRealityEarthUniverseViewsPlansMinutesPerspectiveDestructionGreedPoint Of ViewVanityInclinationTelescopesBiasedDifferent PerspectiveVistasHuman Problems Author:Rachel Carson
“If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.” IfsLongDoubtPlansMissing Author:Roger Ebert