De Burca V Quotes & Sayings

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so. — Alfred Marshall

By the time I was 7 or 8, I wanted to be a comedy writer. — Chris Rock

You've got to understand one of the tricks of the modern mind, a tendency that most people obey without noticing it. In the village or suburb outside there's an inn with the sign of St. George and the Dragon. Now suppose I went about telling everybody that this was only a corruption of King George and the Dragoon. Scores of people would believe it, without any inquiry, from a vague feeling that it's probable because it's prosaic. It turns something romantic and legendary into something recent and ordinary. And that somehow makes it sound rational, though it is unsupported by reason. Of course some people would have the sense to remember having seen St. George in old Italian pictures and French romances, but a good many wouldn't think about it at all. They would just swallow the skepticism because it was skepticism. Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. That's exactly what has happened here. — G.K. Chesterton

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? — Steven Wright

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet. — Brooke Burke

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters! — Hope Mirrlees

My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist. — Autre Ne Veut

In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects. — Winifred Gallagher

Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz

Practice listening to your intuition, your inner voice; ask questions; be curious; see what you see; hear what you hear; and then act upon what you know to be true. These intuitive powers were given to your soul at birth. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes