quotes about Fertilizer

last updated: November 28, 2023

I look at failure as the fertilizer to success.
-- Thomas Jones

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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“I could never be James Bond.”
“The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.”
“Then with Lucy [Hale], her little thing that I kind of learned from her is her country music because sheâ€™s obsessed with country and at the beginning, I wasnâ€™t a huge fan of it, but I was listening to some songs that she plays in the hair and makeup room and sheâ€™s also so funny, too. She does these character impersonations and theyâ€™re just so funny. Made up characters of course, but she can switch into someone else so fast. Iâ€™m always laughing at Lucy and sheâ€™s like a little Polly Pocket, you know? The tiny one.”
“Ah, come now. I look like an angel, but I'm not. The old rules of nature encompass many creatures like me. We're beautiful like the diamond-backed snake, or the striped tiger, yet we're merciless killers”
“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.”

Source : James Q. Wilson (1995). “On Character: Essays”, p.23, American Enterprise Institute
“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”
“This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.”
“Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ***** in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.”
“Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.”
“Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.”