Kindt Collins Quotes

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment. ~ Wilkie Collins

Jinnah to Lord Mountabatten in one of his many meetings before partition: "India has never been a true nation. It only looks that way on the map. The cows I want to eat, the Hindus stops me from killing. Every time a Hindu shakes hands with me he has to wash his hands. The only thing the Muslim has in common with Hindu is his slavery to the British. ~ Larry Collins

When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I'd never had pizza before, and they'd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It's really fun. ~ Misha Collins

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. ~ James C. Collins

They seem to be in a conspiracy to persecute you," she said. "What does it mean?"
"Only the protest of the world, Miss Verinder - on a very small scale - against anything that is new. ~ Wilkie Collins

We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again ... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good. ~ Doug Collins

This is the biggest damn IPod I've ever seen," Claire said, which made him choke on his beer. "Kidding. I have seen a jukebox before. ~ Rachel Caine

When [what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be best in the world at and what drives your economic engine] come together, not only does your work move toward greatness, but so does your life. For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered. ~ James C. Collins

I can only form one clear thought.
This is no place for a girl on fire. ~ Suzanne Collins

Hello" and "good-bye" were a pair of bookends, propping up a vast library of blank volumes, void almanacs, novels full of sentiment I couldn't apprehend ~ Lauren Collins

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it. ~ Suzanne Collins

May I ask a question, doctor? Is she pining in this close place, too? When her sister comes, will her sister take her away? ~ Wilkie Collins

I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely. ~ Phil Collins

Yes, the world is changing, and will continue to do so. But that does not mean we should stop the search for timeless principles. Think of it this way: While the practices of engineering continually evolve and change, the laws of physics remain relatively fixed. I like to think of our work as a search for timeless principles - ~ James C. Collins

WHY 20 MILE MARCHERS WIN 20 Mile Marching helps turn the odds in your favor for three reasons: 1. It builds confidence in your ability to perform well in adverse circumstances. 2. It reduces the likelihood of catastrophe when you're hit by turbulent disruption. 3. It helps you exert self-control in an out-of-control environment. ~ James C. Collins

Your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true, ~ Suzanne Collins

I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. ~ Suzanne Collins

When in doubt, vary, change, solve the problem, seize the opportunity, experiment, try something new (consistent, of course, with the core ideology) - even if you can't predict precisely how things will turn out. Do something. If one thing fails, try another. Fix. Try. Do. Adjust. Move. Act. No matter what, don't sit still. ~ Jim Collins

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings. ~ Suzanne Collins

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

People in low life have no such privilege. Necessity, which spares our betters, has no pity on us. We learn to put our feelings back into ourselves, and to jog on with our duties as patiently as may be. ~ Wilkie Collins

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit. ~ Wilkie Collins

Well, I've spent a lot of time in your libraries at night," said Ripred.
"You come up and read books?" asked Gregor.
"Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me," he said. ~ Suzanne Collins

We want to feel the pain of her loss, because at least it is something of her to feel. However, the result is that we don't sleep. The nearest thing to sleep that I experience is blacking out, from which I emerge instantly awake, twitchy and unrefreshed. And always, I wake with the knowledge that she is dead. There are no vestiges of dreams where she is alive. I don't seem to dream at all. ~ Linda Collins

You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you can't just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it. ~ Bootsy Collins

Readers are leaders. Thinkers succeed. ~ Marva Collins

Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too. Women do nothing of the sort. They act on impulse; and, in nine cases out of ten, they are heartily sorry for it afterward. ~ Wilkie Collins

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. ~ Jackie Collins

Instead, I watch myself get shot on television. ~ Suzanne Collins

If what makes a person an artist is their work, they should be admired; if what makes a person an artist is themselves, they should be adored. ~ Gregor Collins

We both know they have to have a victor. It can only be one of us. Please, take it. For me. And ~ Suzanne Collins

At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it. ~ Suzanne Collins

You never know. Say the arena's actually a giant cake-"
"Say we move on," I broke in. ~ Suzanne Collins

Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life. ~ Wilkie Collins

They erase my face with a layer of pale makeup and draw my features back out. ~ Suzanne Collins

The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited. ~ Lily Collins

Above all I am hoping for trees, which may afford me some means of concealment and food and shelter. Often there are trees because barren landscapes are dull and the Games resolve too quickly without them. ~ Suzanne Collins

Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection. ~ Francis Collins

I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude. ~ Edwyn Collins

How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving. ~ Suzanne Collins

He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window. ~ Wilkie Collins