Beres Hammond Quotes & Sayings

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not. — Iain Duncan Smith

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar. — William E. Geist

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life. — Elsa Maxwell

What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached. I was in it now with all the women in the world. I walked home glad. I will die, I thought with a bounce in my step. I'm whole. Not whole like anyone else, but whole like me. Painful, but simple. It was very simple now. — Eileen Myles

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere. — Jon Ronson

Science says that there are many more universes apart from ours. In that case, even when we think universally, we still think locally! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All great crime writing has a strong sense of place. — Anonymous

One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works? — Nasreddin

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. — Franz Grillparzer

In fact, our standard account of monetary history is precisely backwards. We did not begin with barter, discover money, and then eventually develop credit systems. It happened precisely the other way around. What we now call virtual money came first. Coins came much later, and their use spread only unevenly, never completely replacing credit systems. Barter, in turn, appears to be largely a kind of accidental byproduct of the use of coinage or paper money: historically, it has mainly been what people who are used to cash transactions do when for one reason or another they have no access to currency. — David Graeber

Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments. — Norm MacDonald

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose. — Garrett Hedlund