Boluan Quotes & Sayings

I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody. I'm all for not allowing a 12-year-old to work 40 hours. But a 12-year-old working eight to 10 hours a week or a 14-year-old working 12 to 15 hours a week is not bad. — Paul LePage

I foresee, that, if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery. — Henry David Thoreau

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it. — Greg Jackson

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as something that happens to one, not a style one affects. We're postmoderns because we're not modernists. The modernist writers-Pound, Eliot, Joyce, Stevens, Yeats, Woolf, Williams-spoke with a kind of vatic authority: they were really the last of the Romantics, for whom authorship itself was like being a solitary prophet in the wasteland. — Jonathan Raban

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way. — Bruce Coville

He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In — David McCullough

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds. — James Laughlin

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book. — E. M. Forster

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably. — Tony Blair