A Quote by Steig Larsson

Men who just call to say hello generally have ulterior motives.

Steig Larsson

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Steig Larsson
Swedish - Journalist
August 15, 1954 - November 9, 2004

When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least they do not have ulterior motives.

Albert Camus

When you say 'Hello Wembley!' you're not just saying hello to a large shed. You're saying, 'Hello, I'm following all the greats that have played here before.'

Bill Bailey

I've been called funny. I assume my wife thinks I'm funny. But generally, if you bumped into me and said hello, I would say hello back, politely. And that would be it.

Robert Webb

if you want to create art, you'd best have a deep belief in yourself and no ulterior motives.

Twyla Tharp

Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.

Robert Breault

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

Shannon Purser

One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, academies - that are rooted in the pursuit of impartial truth. That aren't simply just bent to partisan ends or are corrupted for the powerful or for other ulterior motives.

David Grann

My obvious happiness and open, sharing nature made me vulnerable to people with ulterior motives.

Sonja Morgan

Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

Eddy Arnold

The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.

Paul Valery

You don't keep in contact with many of the people you work with because there are so many. Acting's just a transient job, very occasionally you'll meet people and really hit it off but generally you just know people to say hello to.

Helen Baxendale

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.