A Quote by David Mellor

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.

David Mellor

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David Mellor
British - Politician
Born: March 12, 1949

Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.

Paul Runyan

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable.

Rhea Seehorn

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow.

Neil Kinnock

I played up to a caricature when I was in the band, always pouting in photos and being the entertainer. But I'm also emotional and sensitive, not as thick-skinned as people think.

Sarah Harding

I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

Amy Jackson

You've to be thick-skinned.

Rohit Saraf

You're basically getting on stage and asking people, 'Do you guys like me? Do you like who I am?' But you grow pretty thick skinned. And the less scared you seem, the more people like you anyway.

Mae Martin

Short of a space-alien invasion or an Oklahoma tornado, there is almost no problem that a democracy can tackle in a year. But that isn't why we have a government. We have a government to solve the problems that greedy, short-sighted businessmen like me can't.

Glenn Kelman

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

J. K. Rowling

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.

Jenny Eclair

The antagonism between science and religion, about which we hear so much, appears to me to be purely factitiousfabricated, on the one hand, by short-sighted religious people who confound a certain branch of science, theology, with religion; and, on the other, by equally short-sighted scientific people who forget that science takes for its province only that which is susceptible of clear intellectual comprehension; and that, outside the boundaries of that province, they must be content with imagination, with hope, and with ignorance

Thomas Huxley

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.

Saroo Brierley

Two large prominent eyes that rolled about to no purpose (for he was utterly short-sighted) a wide mouth, thick lips and inflated visage, gave him the air of a blind trumpeter. A deep untuneable voice which, instead of modulating, he enforced with unnecsessary pomp, a total neglect of his person, and ignorance of every civil attention, disgusted all who judge by appearance.

Horace Walpole

The manufacturer who finds himself up the creek is the short-sighted opportunist who siphons off all his advertising dollars for short-term promotions.

David Ogilvy

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