quotes about Inefficiency

“You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.”

“No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.”

“I like to start by wiggling my fingers on top of guitar strings.”

“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

“There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.”

“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”

“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.”

“As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“I don't take much from my own father, because he was a very austere, quiet, private man who would come home from work, go to his parlour and play Beethoven on his piano.”

“Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.”