Charnas Appraisal Quotes & Sayings

It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors. — Seneca.

The blues ain't nothin' but a botheration on your mind. — Memphis Slim

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. — Vincent McNabb

The love of economy is the root of all virtue. — George Bernard Shaw

Even in recent times, the empirical evidence does not support the claim that trade liberalization or incentive neutrality leads to faster growth. It is true that higher manufacturing growth rates have been typically associated with higher export growth rates (mostly in countries where export and import shares to GDP grew), but there is no statistical relation between either of these growth rates or degree of trade restrictions. Rather, almost all of successful export-oriented growth has come with selective trade and industrialization policies. In this regard, stable exchange rates and national price levels seem to be considerably more important than import policy in producing successful export-oriented growth — Anwar Shaikh

I tell people if it's in the news don't worry about it. Because by definition news is something that almost never happens. — Bruce Schneier

Her departure was a gradual thing, like a watercolor left in the sun, every day fainter until one day the canvas was bare and you had to rely on memory to recapture the image. — Catherine McKenzie

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert. — Vladimir Nabokov

I glory in the fact that a human being has multiple talents and exercises them all with a degree of integrity and artistic proficiency. That's what I do. — Theodore Bikel

Holding onto negativity only hurts you, let it go — L.J. Vanier

Eyes are distracting. You see too much. You don't see enough. — Will Graham

With the canal, the cost of shipping a ton of flour from Buffalo to New York City fell from $120 a ton to $6 a ton, and the carrying time was reduced from three weeks to just over one. The effect on New York's fortunes was breathtaking. Its share of national exports leaped from less than 10 percent in 1800 to over 60 percent by the middle of the century; in the same period, even more dazzlingly, its population went from ten thousand to well over half a million. — Bill Bryson

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation. — Aaron Koblin

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain. — Bryant McGill