Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you ca...
PHINEAS T. BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Every man
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
PHINEAS FLETCHER Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
PHINEAS FLETCHER When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:...
PHINEAS FLETCHER The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, ...
PHINEAS FLETCHER Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and princ...
PHINEAS FLETCHER Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!
P.T. BARNUM Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
P.T. BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. BARNUM They're really, really neat projects because nobody wants to fund them and everybody is scared of th...
JIM BARNUM My timing was just really on with the growth and the desire for these things.
JIM BARNUM Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ...
P.T. BARNUM There's a sucker born every minute
P.T. BARNUM Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
P.T. BARNUM More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much
P.T. BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant
P.T. BARNUM If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star
P.T. BARNUM Every crowd has a silver lining.
P.T. BARNUM Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a p...
P.T. BARNUM The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the bas...
P.T. BARNUM The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.
P.T. BARNUM The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure s...
P.T. BARNUM Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P.T. BARNUM MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . ....
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY Every man is a part of each and our senses are attached to both. So when a man speaks of himself as ...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish t...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
P. T. BARNUM To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. BARNUM In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in...
P. T. BARNUM There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P. T. BARNUM Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. BARNUM Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lig...
P. T. BARNUM No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...
P. T. BARNUM Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. BARNUM Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P. T. BARNUM Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P. T. BARNUM Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning a...
P. T. BARNUM True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little l...
P. T. BARNUM He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. BARNUM Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. BARNUM Every crowd has a silver lining.
P. T. BARNUM There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. BARNUM Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
P. T. BARNUM The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the bas...
P. T. BARNUM Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. BARNUM The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the expos...
P. T. BARNUM As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally ...
P. T. BARNUM A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its at...
P. T. BARNUM Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, fl...
P. T. BARNUM Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these da...
P. T. BARNUM I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party...
ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal.
KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h...
TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo...
TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D...
ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain...
ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit...
ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu...
ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president...
ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic...
ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ...
TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,...
TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden...
TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials...
TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai...
TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an...
TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki...
TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I...
TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec...
TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int...
TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea...
TAYLOR WILSON I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing p...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a me...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple cra...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
TAYLOR SCHILLING In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but no...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
TAYLOR SCHILLING For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy ca...
TAYLOR SCHILLING My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house...
TAYLOR SCHILLING There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very s...
TAYLOR SCHILLING So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you ne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Coffee makes me go crazy.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, '...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel g...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks li...
TAYLOR SCHILLING If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games ver...
TAYLOR PHINNEY There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who yo...
TAYLOR PHINNEY I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
TAYLOR PHINNEY I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after th...
TAYLOR PHINNEY When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potential...
TAYLOR PHINNEY I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religi...
TAYLOR NEGRON Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
TAYLOR NEGRON We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about o...
TAYLOR NEGRON I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping...
TAYLOR NEGRON When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the peopl...
TAYLOR NEGRON I love the idea that movies, like 'Fast Times,' can be iconic and change people's lives ...
TAYLOR NEGRON I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
TAYLOR NEGRON I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
TAYLOR NEGRON Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed und...
TAYLOR NEGRON Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5'...
TAYLOR NEGRON In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who h...
TAYLOR NEGRON As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereot...
TAYLOR NEGRON I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living he...
TAYLOR NEGRON I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ...
TAYLOR NEGRON I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of sa...
TAYLOR NEGRON My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
TAYLOR NEGRON My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh...
TAYLOR NEGRON These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cut...
TAYLOR NEGRON For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having n...
TAYLOR NEGRON Before I paint someone, I always ask, 'How much examination can your body take?' 'How mu...
TAYLOR NEGRON To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a ...
TAYLOR NEGRON I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the A...
TAYLOR NEGRON I think people are obsessed with their pets because pets don't speak. It's that simple. Afte...
TAYLOR NEGRON I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
TAYLOR NEGRON I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirem...
TAYLOR NEGRON The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and...
TAYLOR MALI I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters...
TAYLOR MALI One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are m...
TAYLOR MALI The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
TAYLOR MALI When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was ac...
TAYLOR MALI Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving ...
TAYLOR MALI If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteou...
TAYLOR MALI I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career withou...
TAYLOR LAUTNER I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. Sh...
TAYLOR LAUTNER I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm look...
TAYLOR LAUTNER I got the famous Oprah hug!
TAYLOR LAUTNER If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm ...
TAYLOR LAUTNER My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Da...
TAYLOR LAUTNER Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff g...
TAYLOR LAUTNER Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smil...
TAYLOR LAUTNER