Famous quotes containing the words lee, jones, early and/or success:
“Ones gone, ones born. Its an amazing process, isnt it? As many as Ive delivered, it never fails to awe me.”
—John Lee Mahin (19021984)
“I said in my novel that the clergyman is a kind of human Sunday. Jones and I settled that my sister May was a kind of human Good Friday and Mrs. Bovill an Easter Monday or some other Bank Holiday.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)
“The toughest thing about success is that youve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. Youve got to keep on working that talent. Someday Ill reach for it and it wont be there.”
—Irving Berlin (18881989)