1694a Quotes & Sayings

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs. — Kenneth Langone

I am dominant here. You live or die at my mercy and I say when you fight and when you don't. It all sounds good in my head. Only it doesn't play out that way. — Susan Ee

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job. — Cullen Bunn

Think of all the mesquite in Texas, the pinyon pines, the acorns in Appalachia, every place has the possibility of mass production. It's an infrastructural system so nestled in ecology, it's a more beautiful ecology. — Joel Salatin

Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories. — William T. Vollmann

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do! — Laurie David

Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it. — Wanda Sykes

I do not believe in a personal connection to God; that's where it gets transcendental. — Orhan Pamuk

The dynamic inter-linkage of art forms in orature is thus seen as reflecting a Weltanschauung that assumes the normality of the connection between nature, nurture, supernatural, and supernurtural. I — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public. — P.T. Barnum

He watched her screen, her spell-checker halting at such spurious entries as "fuckwitism" and "Caliguliberal". — Cara McKenna

He was, as Billy Name said in the acclaimed Ric Burns documentary about Andy Warhol, uninterested in being a second-tier artist. He was uninterested in being a first-tier artist! He wanted to be, you know, a god. Someone who completely changed the ... he wanted to be Zeus with the lightning bolt and nothing less would have satisfied him. — Bob Colacello

I always give three pieces of advice to all the teenage girls when I do my talks: long country walks - it's important to get some fresh air in your lungs, and be in contact with your body; masturbation - it takes the edge off, it'll get you through; and the revolution - believing in changing the world. — Caitlin Moran

As children we accept magic as a normal part of life. Everything seems rooted in it, everything conspires in magic terms. — Paul Scott