Joe Madison Quotes & Sayings

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence. — Thomas Heatherwick

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. — Stephen King

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune. — Joe Biden

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy. — Patty Duke

I believe strongly in condoms. They avert babies and disease. They make you seem responsible, not slutty. They make the girl relax too, because you're taking care of the risky part. Like you're a professional. Roll it on, squeeze the tip, turn back to her, ready, set go. Like I'd just done a little disappearing act on myself and became something confident and wonderful. You can't see through my latex disguise! You will love this so let's get down! You don't want to know how many times this worked in my favor.
God I feel like a fucking asshole sometimes. All the time, really. — Carrie Mesrobian

Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done. — Machado De Assis

I mean, Hell or no hell, all horror plots are overdone, over cooked, and smelling. — Cameron Jace

I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me. — Louis Menand

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal. — Bill Gurley

Later, Hobbes will stress the notion central to Augustan thinking, the binary of passion and reason:
The Passions that encline men to Peace, are Fear of Death; Desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a Hope by their Industry to obtain them. And Reason suggesteth convenient Articles of
Peace, upon which men may be drawn to agreement. These Articles, are they, which otherwise are called the Laws of Nature. — Ronald Carter

Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way. — Rebecca Stead

He swears. He promises. One of these days will be the day that changes everything. — Nathan Hill