Beautiful Bastard Christina Loren Quotes & Sayings

What about the FDA? Please, are you serious? Back then the FDA was one of the most underfunded, mismanaged organizations in the country. I think they were still high-fiving over getting Red No. 218 out of M&Ms. — Max Brooks

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. — Kirk Douglas

We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least." — Merrilee Boyack

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving? — George Saunders

There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true. — Tracey Emin

And if there is any phase of human enjoyment, any part of life, any occupation, avocation, divertisement, pleasure or pain where the fat man has the better of it in any regard, I failed to discover it in the twenty years during which I looked like the rear end of a hack and had all the bodily characteristics of a bale of hay. — Samuel G. Blythe

I was writing fiction in my 20s but in a pretty undisciplined way - late at night, maybe, after I'd peeled myself from the walls of a nightclub and crawled home along the gutters. But I slowly became more serious and more devout in my work, and I fell seriously in love with the short story form. — Kevin Barry

The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns. — David Mitchell

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But if you weren't a Keeper ... if you lost someone and you thought they were gone forever, and then you learned you could get them back, you'd be there with the rest of them, clawing at the walls to get through. — Victoria Schwab

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball. — Bob Stoops

Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually be unwound. The distortions degrade the general standard of living, and the economy goes into a recession (call that an incomplete cleansing). Or it goes into a depression - wherein the entire sickly structure comes unglued. — Doug Casey