Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

Avarice, the spur of industry.

Dwight Yorke

What do I like about Spurs? The flairness

Graham Roberts

Spurs haven't got the funds they need so success has to be achieved gradually.

Honore de Balzac

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Hyman Rickover

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

John Milton

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Joseph Joubert

Know that morality is a curb, not a spur.

Eric Balfour

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

David Adler

We want to really get the word out to the industry to make sure they know what the opportunities are here.

Raymond Neidl

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

Kirsten Dunst

There are a lot of charismatic people in this industry ... and I can understand why people on location get together.

Sarah Snook

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

Tony Pierce

The product of intense technical work over the last nine months, the UEFI 2.0 specification represents outstanding industry teamwork from our member companies.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

John Hurt

Ultimately, the film industry has always pushed out its biggies, and I don't have a problem with that. I just wish that we'd spend more time nurturing the smaller ones.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.

Charles Lynch

We're starting to see signs of life. The question is how quick the rest of the industry can scale down its infrastructure to make it viable.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.