Bargains And Treasures Quotes & Sayings

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse. — Kevin Costner

But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps. — Jonathan Lethem

Because Spencer is a certifiable genius, Ford is as ruthless as they come, and I'm an accomplished liar. — J.A. Huss

Certainly a wilderness area, a little portion of our planet left alone ... will furnish us with a number of very important uses ... If we are wise, we will cherish what we have left of such places in our land. — Olaus Murie

I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher. — Jesse Lacey

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide - it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese - the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I was surprised that he was so muscular. I had always assumed he was eighty percent alcohol and twenty percent irritation. — Lynnie Purcell

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. — Ayn Rand

Mr. Lilly, on the other hand, is not selling me a product I can use. He is selling a fancy new thing called a methodology. You know what a methodology is? It's a painted box filled with nothing except my own desires for a more profitable company. He is looking to take a percentage of the transaction between me and my own soul without creating any value. This is a very old trick that's been going on since religion began. It is without ethics and it distinguishes me from Mr. Lilly. — Charlie Close

Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge. — Amit Ray

The Danes had a great love of sea stories and the old sagas. Snorri provided the former from personal experience and Kara the latter from her vast store of such trivia. I half-thought some of the duke's men would volunteer to join the Undoreth and travel with the Vikings such was the level of worship on display ... — Mark Lawrence

It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it — John Berger