Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960 Category: Silence
An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind. – Walter Bagehot Category: Silence
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. – Mark Twain Category: Business
Come to West Virginia and well show you how to live… how to treat people. Were open for business. West Virginia is truly on the move. – Joe Manchin Category: Business
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. – Calvin Coolidge Category: Success
My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic. – Baz Luhrmann Category: Education