Felsenstein Quotes & Sayings

When I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading. — Anne Fadiman

Bilbo. "Ha!" thought he, warming to his new work as he lifted it carefully out, "this — J.R.R. Tolkien

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain gone. It's the lure of cults: the promise of a good family; it's what people think love is, but love isn't absence of pain, it's a hand to hold while you're going through it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous. — Barry Manilow

I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept? — Edmund Phelps

My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.' — Bob Monkhouse

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train. — Calvin Trillin

Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive. — Shimon Peres

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students' hearts forever. — LouAnne Johnson

The outgroup is rocks. — Joseph Felsenstein