Fiedorowicz Houston Quotes & Sayings

The word "salary" comes from the salt that was part of Roman soldiers' pay or that they bought with a special allowance. — Anonymous

So it is best for you to withdraw into the world of your portents, for there at least you can decide yourself how portentous they are. — Umberto Eco

Bugs like these we've got here, you aren't going to find those unless you slow down and hunt really hard. Live nearby for a while and look. At which point it's too late, if you get a bad result. You're out of luck then." Long silence as he walked south along the beach. Then: "It's too bad. It really is a very pretty world." Later: "What's funny is anyone thinking it would work in the first place. I mean it's obvious any new place is going to be either alive or dead. If it's alive it's going to be poisonous, if it's dead you're going to have to work it up from scratch. I suppose that could work, but it might take about as long as it took Earth. Even if you've got the right bugs, even if you put machines to work, it would take thousands of years. So what's the point? Why do it at all? Why not be content with what you've got? Who were they, that they were so discontent? Who the fuck were they?" This sounded much like Devi, and Freya put her head — Kim Stanley Robinson

These businessmen, however, desired more than the simple elimination of imprisonment for defaulting debtors. They wanted a bankruptcy law that would abolish the debt itself, as well as imprisonment. With such a law, old misjudgments would not plague their future; indeed, it might unleash creative, if risky, enterprise.[63] — Robert J. Rayback

No matter what you do, you cannot change what has already happened. — Paula Renaye

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues. — Robert Cray

The first step away from being manipulated, and towards a more autonomous outlook, is to stand back from a set of responses and think. — Jonathan Glover

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels. — Ntozake Shange

that report proves is that many folks talk about working more than they actually work. Of — J.D. Vance

Live and let live" is an old adage. "Live and help live" is a better one. — David O. McKay

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic. — Rajneesh

I've learned that the flesh that clothes us means very little." Prince Ashton — Genevra Thorne

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time. — Cy Twombly