Aaralyn Thornton Quotes & Sayings

Figure out what people really care about, not what they say they care about. — Steven D. Levitt

This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future. — Kathryn Davis

And always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too. — Allen West

Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women's. Margaret Thatcher was a lady's lady. — Louise Burfitt-Dons

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight. — Valerie Simpson

Scholars tell us that there was no word in ancient Latin or Greek for "self" as it is understood in contemporary usage. — James Carroll

If love is truth then give me love, or else give me truth. — Prajyoti Pati

In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault! — Tim LaHaye

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example. — Mark Helprin

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it. — Rick Yancey

Maybe I'll just sit here parked for a while, he decided, and alpha meditate or go into various different altered states of consciousness. — Philip K. Dick

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance. — Jerry Harrison

I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they just couldn't do it. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. But they lost those crucial years of learning to turn any audience into your audience. — Patton Oswalt

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me. — Charlie Munger