Hosnian Quotes & Sayings

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too. — Jim Thompson

...an external reward can affect one's interpretation of one's own motivation, and interpretation that comes to be self-fulfilling. A similar effect may account for the familiar fact that when someone turns his hobby into a business, he often loses pleasure in it. Likewise, an intellectual who pursues an academic career gets professionalized, and this may lead him to stop thinking. This line of reasoning suggests that the kind of appreciative attention where one remains focused on what one is doing can arise only in leisure activities. Such a conclusion would put pleasurable absorption beyond the ken of any activity that is undertaken for the sake of making money, because although money is undoubtedly good, it is not intrinsically so. — Matthew Crawford

Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly. — William Cecil

Today I am the greatest of all time. — Rickey Henderson

You can't stop love. It just happens. — Katie Kaleski

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality. — Rita Mae Brown

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. — Lionel Trilling

It's starting to hurt, Billy said, almost like he didn't want to interrupt. A thin — Michael Grant