All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.


John Kenneth Galbraith

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ROBERT GALBRAITH
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
ROBERT GALBRAITH
...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
You are not writing properly unless someone is bleeding, probably you.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
You know, there's pride, and then there's stupidity
ROBERT GALBRAITH
We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this ...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
There’s people who’d expect you to take a bullet for them and they don’t bother rememb’ring ...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had ...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
I used to put in a safety pin to make sure.
CATHERINE GALBRAITH
The act of shopping for what he needed, and of setting up the bare necessities for himself, had lull...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
More new-vehicle shoppers are visiting manufacturer sites, and their experiences on these sites have...
DENNIS GALBRAITH
While it's true that some sites are significantly more useful than others, the industry has improved...
DENNIS GALBRAITH
Vehicle shoppers come to automotive sites with a wide range of shopping patterns, Internet skills, I...
DENNIS GALBRAITH
While it's true that some sites are significantly more useful than others, the industry has improved...
DENNIS GALBRAITH
It's a cultural shift. The idea that people only want to buy American is going away.
DENNIS GALBRAITH
It seemed like a really interesting way to bring these two really passionate interests of mine toget...
MARYSIA GALBRAITH
it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
They couldn't understand why we were dumping snow on their lawns. But it was for their protection so...
GEORGE GALBRAITH
I've broken every independent candidate record out there, but still can't get people to come off the...
GATEWOOD GALBRAITH
Today they (the university) will threaten to pull your financial aid money if you are found in posse...
GATEWOOD GALBRAITH
He was sorry, genuinely sorry, for the pain she was in. Yet the revelation had caused certain...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
She was black, too, or rather, a delicious shade of café au lait, and this, we were constantly told...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
I've never had surgery before, but I'm just happy I can get back and continue the rest of the season...
LANCE GALBRAITH
I don't know. I wish I could tell you because I'd like to know, too.
LANCE GALBRAITH
We know when it's time to shake things up. We're here for our teammates, and we hope our teammates k...
LANCE GALBRAITH
Obviously, everyone would like to see a fight pretty much every night, but I've got more responsibil...
LANCE GALBRAITH
Pretty much, you've got to be able to play now to succeed in this game. There's not that one-dimensi...
LANCE GALBRAITH
I didn't want to step on anybody's toes (when I first came here), but now I'm comfortable.
LANCE GALBRAITH
I play with great players. I just keep going to the net and (my teammates) will find me. Sometimes i...
LANCE GALBRAITH
We've been on a good roll, but in the third periods of most of our games, we've kind of let up (late...
LANCE GALBRAITH
He's a big goalie, and it's tough to find empty spots on him. It doesn't seem like the other teams a...
LANCE GALBRAITH
I certainly don't see any easy way out of this mess.
PETER GALBRAITH
... cheer the fuck up and eat your burger.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
For this to happen today, of all days! It felt like a wink from God.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
She wuz depressed. Yeah, she wuz on stuff for it. Like me. Sometimes it jus' takes you over. It's an...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Ridiculous," he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Are you all right, Robin?'

'Yes, I promise I am.' She hesitated, then said, almost defian...
ROBERT GALBRAITH
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it ...
J. WILLIAM GALBRAITH
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
J. K. GALBRAITH
The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in ...
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
EVAN G. GALBRAITH
Life is surreal and beautiful.
KENNETH BRANAGH
I fondly remember good times working on 'Thor.'
KENNETH BRANAGH
Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they'...
KENNETH BRANAGH
My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simp...
KENNETH BRANAGH
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation tea...
KENNETH BRANAGH
In 'Henry V,' the story of the assumption of true and responsible leadership by Henry I thin...
KENNETH BRANAGH
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
KENNETH BRANAGH
The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselve...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Tho...
KENNETH BRANAGH
One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I don't find myself so exercised by a desperation to be new.
KENNETH BRANAGH
I'm basically quite a cheerful person.
KENNETH BRANAGH
You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are...
KENNETH BRANAGH
Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps becau...
KENNETH BRANAGH
Being Irish, I always had this love of words.
KENNETH BRANAGH
Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think t...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of th...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I come from the theatre; my bones are in the theatre. It's as natural as breathing to want to be...
KENNETH BRANAGH
I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a da...
KENNETH BRANAGH