Autarchic Development Quotes & Sayings

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. — Fritz Zwicky

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common. — Sarah Dessen

The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease. — J. Thorn

I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don't like. — Neil Gaiman

Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be. — Harriet Evans

Men have a higher death rate than women for nine out of ten leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, injuries, cerebrovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, diabetes, pneumonia and flu, HIV infection, suicide, and homicide. We all die of something, but if you're a guy, you are more likely to get a serious disease and die from it than are women. — Jed Diamond

But he has a clever way of getting answers with carefully worded statements. — Lauren DeStefano

I don't see any move toward international pressure to stabilize the situation. — Sydney Schanberg

Tell me about yourself."
"Myself?" He looks confused.
"Yes," I say, patting the mattress.
"You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside me.
"Not true," I say. "Where were you born? What's your favourite season? Anything."
"Here. Florida," he says. "I remember a woman in a red dress with curly brown hair. Maybe she was my mother, I'm not sure. And summer. What about you?" The last part is said with a smile. He smiles so infrequently that I consider each one a trophy. — Lauren DeStefano

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life. — Patti LuPone

went from hoping things would work out to seeing that they were working out. I am actually doing this, I thought. Maybe I'm not just flying by the seat of my pants. I didn't want to be passive anymore, personally or professionally. In that moment, I came into being as my real and present professional self. — Padma Lakshmi