Haunched Quotes & Sayings

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader. — Robin Sloan

Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome. — Mike Scully

The basic idea behind self-signaling is that despite what we tend to think, we don't have a very clear notion of who we are. We generally believe that we have a privileged view of our own preferences and character, but in reality we don't know ourselves that well (and definitely not as well as we think we do). Instead, we observe ourselves in the same way we observe and judge the actions of other people - inferring who we are and what we like from our actions. For — Dan Ariely

I used to sort of take the phone off the hook, you know, put my feet up and watch the TV until it was all over. — Nick Lowe

What you think about you bring about. — Bob Proctor

Her kiss was a good-bye and a promise and a dream. — Shannon A. Thompson

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact. — Christopher Isherwood

Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States. — Martin Denny

Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result. — C.S. Lewis

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. — Doris Kearns Goodwin