Ashenfelter Orley Quotes & Sayings

Lip-chewed debtors rich in excuses; heard-it-all creditors tightening nooses; prisoners haunted by happier lives and ageing rakes by other men's wives; skeletal tutors goaded to fits; firemen-turned-looters when occasion permits; tongue-tied witnesses; purchased judges; mothers-in-law nurturing briars and grudges; apothecaries grinding powders with mortars; palanquins carrying not-yet-wed daughters; silent nuns; nine-year-old whores; the once-were-beautiful gnawed by sores; — David Mitchell

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?' — Bill Bailey

the jet stream undulating over us like an angry snake god. — David Wong

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?' — John Sandford

I love you. Even if no-one else in the world ever sees it, you need to see it. You need to believe it. — Olivia Cunning

The biggest key for me to stay healthy is sleep. — Annie Wersching

Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. — Alan D. Eames

He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot - a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile. — John Green

We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the world creatively, make good friendships, live in a place he loved, do work that is rewarding, and make a contribution to the community. People say that the word "educate" means to "draw out" a person's potential. But I like the "duc" - part in the middle of it. To be educated is to become a duke, a leader, a person of stature and color, a presence and a character. — Thomas Moore