Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Michael Bergdahl Quote: 'At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain ...'

Related Quotes

Wal-Mart, we've been known for many years - back to the days of when Sam Walton started the company - we've been known for basics. The basic need of families and people across America. Wal-Mart was known as the place for basics.
Mike Duke
Tags: People Been Years
dune beach sea nature sand dunes
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.


Barry Diller
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
Michael Chertoff
Tags: Alone You People
It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
Hanoi Hannah
Tags: War Had New
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
Rebecca West
Tags: About Which He
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid
Tags: Death Man New
lago federa dolomites nature lake
New York has got this sort of wonderful romantic idea of the South.


Josh Lucas
Tags: Romantic Got New
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.
Martin Fleischmann
Tags: Time You Like
There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.
Peter Noone
Tags: Our Being Every
Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.
Jonah Lehrer
Tags: World New Around
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.
Sharon Olds
Tags: Great Really Had
I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
Mike Colter
For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Tags: Time Good God
I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.
Paul Auster
Tags: Good You About
A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Frederick W. Smith
Tags: Than Better Must
'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about.
Peter Jackson
sea beach horizon coast landscape
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.


Jean Cocteau
Tags: Things Way Saying
As a South African, the idea of turkey was new to me. And confusing. It's about the least flavorful bird on the planet.
Kimbal Musk
Tags: Me About New
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Hugh Hefner
Tags: Life Man New
cir dolomites alm nature rock
Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.


Martin O'Malley