Allais Effect Quotes & Sayings

I claimed myself and remade my life. — Dorothy Allison

Many Nigerians believe that Babangida 'institutionalized corruption', yet few admit their own complicity in creating the situation where corruption became the norm. The citizenry are simultaneously victims, accomplices and active participants in their own corrupt downfall. Corruption in Nigeria is not just an offshoot of collapsed social and governmental institutions, nor is it the result of a hostile economic environment. The roots go much deeper and are more symptomatic of a residual breakdown of Nigerian societal values and morality. It is the result of a nationwide refusal to condemn dishonesty... While the government must take blame for not cracking down on corruption, the public deserves its share of blame for encouraging it, and letting the government get away with it. — Max Siollun

If I'm playing in the morning, I'll get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If I'm playing in the afternoon, I'll start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I don't feel sluggish or full. — Rory McIlroy

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. — Catherine Opie

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better. — Mike Quade

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect. — Erica Schroeder

The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth. — Aristotle.

With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said. — Evan Esar

You could never 'toss' your emotional baggage. You could only store it in an overhead compartment that might burst open at any given moment. — S.A. Lusher

One can know worlds one has not experienced, choose a response to life that has never been offered, create an inwardness utterly strong and fruitful. — Susan Sontag

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach. — Tanya R. Liverman