Cviic Quotes & Sayings

Having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. — Theodore Roosevelt

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell

Sometimes I wish I was a cloud ... Just floating along, going wherever the breeze takes me. — Masashi Kishimoto

I'm at least getting my foot in the door as far as doing straight dramatic parts, which no one would have ever considered me for in the '80s. I never objected to that because I love doing comedy, and I'm not the kind of actor that insists that unless you're doing a serious dramatic role, you're not acting. — Curtis Armstrong

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached. — William Safire

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual? — Benjamin Tucker

The fact that a thesis is flawed does not mean that we should not invest in it as long as other people believe in it and there is a large group of people left to be convinced. The point was made by John Maynard Keynes when he compared the stock market to a beauty contest where the winner is not the most beautiful contestant but the one whom the greatest number of people consider beautiful. Where I have something significant to add is in pointing out that it pays to look for the flaws; if we find them, we are ahead of the game because we can limit our losses when the market also discovers what we already know. It is when we are unaware of what could go wrong that we have to worry. — George Soros

Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me. — Philip K. Dick

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis. — Richard Brautigan