Alphandary Quotes & Sayings

Global poverty is an input on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor. — Michel Chossudovsky

I think imitation is always the greatest form of flattery. — Simon De Pury

They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it. The voice on my answering machine is still John's. The fact that it was his in the first place was arbitrary, having to do with who was around on the day the answering machine last needed programming, but if I needed to retape it now I would do so with a sense of betrayal. One day when I was talking on the telephone in his office I mindlessly turned the pages of the dictionary that he had always left open on the table by the desk. When I realized what I had done I was stricken: what word had he last looked up, what had he been thinking? By turning the pages had I lost the message? Or had the message been lost before I touched the dictionary? Had I refused to hear the message? I — Joan Didion

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid. — Bill Maher

His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s. — Jonathan Lethem

A solemn state of mind is never crude or simple - it seems to contain a certain measure of its own opposite in solution. A solemn joy preserves a sort of bitter in its sweetness; a solemn sorrow is one to which we intimately consent. — William James

If you are ever going to become the kind of person who achieves huge amounts of success, you must learn to focus only on what you can control. You can't control the weather. You can't control the thoughts of other people. You can't control the overall economy. However you can control your thoughts, your expectations and your luck. — Clay Clark

He turned, leaning against the door, one arm over his head. Beef. To the motherfucking. Cake. — Alice Clayton

As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve resolution. However, not only do we not deserve resolution, we suffer from resolution. We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that. We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way, an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity. — Pema Chodron

It was not important how many enemies there are, but where the enemy is — Plutarch

A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description. — Sophia Amoruso

Life is an amazingly mysterious and interesting game. To win, you have to play with the magical powers of love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen. — Stephen Ambrose