Eisenstat Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I'm never any good in the morning. It is only after four in the afternoon that I get going. — Stephen Hawking

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own. — Thomas Browne

It is not their quantative scarcity vis-a-vis the majority that makes minorities hapless but rather their qualitative similarity. As a member of a minority group, you can be as industrious as an ant, even hit the jackpot and acquire a considerable fortune, but someday, just because you presently and will always belong to the same community, you could in an instant find yourself on par with those of your community who have idled their lives away since birth. That is why the affluent among the minorities are never affluent enough; neither are their exceptional members ever sufficiently so. — Elif Shafak

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left. — Aristotle Onassis

If you're going to fail, you'd rather fail early than fail late in general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Grief is an illness I can't recover from. — Sue Grafton

The man who once famously pronounced "I know words, I have the best words" scorched through the primaries using the vocabulary of a signing gorilla ("China - money - bad!"). — Matt Taibbi

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course — Freddie Mercury

When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had. (on her first impression of husband, Nathan Larson) — Nina Persson

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel

That my business success is equal to my personal life. — Merv Griffin

I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly. — Rudyard Kipling

Faith is the sense of the soul that reaches out and perceives the mountain-moving, water-walking God. That touches the hem of the Healer. That confounds every other sense because it binds us to You. — Joan Campbell

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny

I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure. — Ed Helms