“I want to tell you though, I'm having the absolute best birthday ever. Last night -- this was so sweet, it means a great deal to me -- the other cult members got together and they all took me out to see Star Wars.” WantMeanWarTogetherLastsNightStarsDealsSweetMembersAbsolutesCultLast NightBest Birthday Author:David Letterman
“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.” PeopleWayTryingLongFeelingsAbleYoungValuesOrderOpportunityStarsDealsClassMiddleSafeChaosInternationalTerrorismFocusedAccessPartnersSecureConsistentMiddle ClassStay FocusedMiddle Class FamilyNorth Star Author:Barack Obama
“I think if we're going to send messages to the stars then it needs a great deal of thought that it's something that should involve the entire not only scientific community, but the entire world community. We need to think very carefully indeed.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsShouldStarsCommunityDealsMessages Author:Paul Davies
“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.” MenShouldStatesCharacterActionLawStarsProcessNaturalDealsCommonSecretFourDirectSatRebellionDespiseRoyalCouncilChamberPillarsDecreePromptsPrerogativeJurisdictionCommon Law Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“I remember I prayed to God. I was like, "Just let me be on TV." Let my friends see me on TV in a good thing. I like, if I'm funny a little bit on a commercial and then I don't need to act ever again. "Just let them see me." And then it worked. I got the commercial. I was on TV. My friends all saw me. I was a kind of a star at school for like three days. And then it faded away and I was hungry and I had to like make another deal with God. I remember it still.” IfsNeedsKindLittlesStillsSchoolRememberThreeStarsBitsDealsSawsTvsLittle BitMy FriendsLet MeGood ThingsHungryFaded Author:Jack Black
“Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art.” Has BeensArtHandsStarsDealsCommonVisionSubjectsMusicianConcernedPerfectionFunctionHarmonyMusicalDiscussionManipulationFourthFifthUndertakingsCommon GroundAstronomersTriads Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Everything is disposable now: disposable lighters, disposable blades, disposable stars. They inflate you up for one big deal and then they look for someone else.” LooksBigsStarsDealsBladesBig DealLightersDisposable Author:Rex Smith
“I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.” ThinkingKnowsShouldYearsTwoBookBeautifulNextStarsDealsNovelListsCinemaNext YearAdaptedBeautiful Books Author:Agnes Varda
“One of the great awards from a chef's point of view are Michelin stars. The ultimate is three Michelin stars. For example, Gordon Ramsey has three Michelin stars. Having one Michelin star is a big deal, two is incredible and having three puts you in a bracket of maybe 30 chefs worldwide.” TwoBigsThreeStarsViewsDealsExampleUltimateIncrediblesPoint Of ViewAwardsChefBig DealBrackets Author:Paul Rankin
“It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.” WellsRealAbleStarsDealsCasesWorstEstatesSuper Star Author:Barbara Corcoran
“Me and Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel and Dana Carvey wrote a script called 'Hans and Franz: The Girlyman Dilemma,' and it was going to be co-produced with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he was going to co-star in it. We had a deal with Sony, we got paid to write it, and it was a musical, but it never got made because...I think Arnold kind of backed out at the last minute because he was getting cold feet because ;The Last Action Hero' had come out, where he was parodying himself. But it was a really funny script, and I wish it could've seen the light, because I think it would've done really well.” ThinkingWritingWellsKindMadeDoneLightActionLastsWishStarsDealsFeetMinutesColdHeroPaidMusicalScriptsDilemmaLast MinuteSchwarzeneggerSonyConanAction HeroesCold FeetConan O Brien Author:Kevin Nealon
“Rather than seeing ourselves as insignificant specks in the immensity of the cosmos, we can consider that immensity an indicator of our worth. It seems the Creator invested a great deal-a universe of 50 billion trillion stars, plus a hundred times more matter, all fine-tuned to mind-boggling precision-for us. If not for the strength and abundance of evidence in support of that notion, it would seem the height of arrogance. Humility demands that we take a deeper and wider look at that evidence.” IfsMindLooksMatterSeemsUniverseStarsDealsSupportSeeingHumilityFineDemandHundredEvidenceNotionCreatorDeeperBillionsHeightArroganceAbundanceCosmosPlusWorth ItInsignificantPrecisionIndicatorsImmensitySpecksMind Boggling Book:Why the Universe Is the Way It Is Source: Why the Universe Is the Way It Is