Instapaper Bookmarklet Quotes & Sayings

think like a businessman, live like a king,wherever you belonge to ,,, :~ — Kamal Parvez

If I'm walking down an American street and anyone darker than a peanut shell approaches, I'll say, "Hello." This because, if I don't say it, he or she might think that I'm anxious. Which, of course, I must be, otherwise I'd walk by in silence, just as I do with my fellow Caucasians.
Does this make me racist, or simply race conscious? Either way, I'm more afraid of conservatives than I am of black people. — David Sedaris

I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. — Benjamin Graham

The Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out. — Cory Doctorow

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris. — Jane Tara

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one's thoughts — Nick Bantock

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time. — Lisa Randall

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster

Like love, privacy is most manifest in its absence. — Christopher Moore

OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it. — John Caudwell

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need. — Gus Van Sant

Why? Why is there a crisis in literature? Because of lies and rottenness. Simplicity and sincerity have been replaced by obsfucation and pretense. Men, of course. They love to create mystery where none exists. It's the way they think. — Alexander McCall Smith

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written. — Edward Carpenter

Waving from side to side in the breeze, her long golden hair
shimmered as she handed Thomas a bottle of beer.
"When are you coming home to me?" She said eloquently. — Thomas Ferreolus