Kirsty Gallacher Quotes

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

A world with a sudden limit on air travel would be tremendously different from the one we live in now.

Historically, large-scale global trade has served two functions: 1) the exchange of goods between willing sellers and buyers described in Econ 101 textbooks; 2) as a tool of state aggrandizement, in which the private parties are stand-ins for governmental interests.

You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

Compared to people in Africa, I think we've all had privileged upbringings.

I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.

There are a lot of funny people and a lot of unfunny people. Some of them are women and some of them are dudes.

I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

People wrote me off, but I believed in myself. I got the confidence back, and it grew and grew. I won my first major and my last at the place that changed my life.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

Repeating is harder than anything else.

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.