Jr Nuest Quotes & Sayings

English for Research Papers: A Handbook for Brazilian Authors — Jim Hesson

I was 18 and making 150 quid a week, which was a lot of money to me. Then there was a bad winter and I got paid off. Then my firm, JW Henderson of Bowling Green Street, Leith, went bust. If they hadn't folded, I'd probably still be scaffolding and loving it. — Jamie Sives

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours. — Aldous Huxley

A man cannot understand the art he is studying if he only looks for the end result without taking the time to delve deeply into the reasoning of the study. — Miyamoto Musashi

'Annapurna' is a sort of novel. It's a novel, but a true novel. — Maurice Herzog

He went away as if weights were tied to every limb that bore him from her. — Elizabeth Gaskell

You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face. — Simone De Beauvoir

The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised, the subordination of our doing to the dictates of abstract labour, that is, of value, money, profit. It is this abstraction which is, after all, the very existence of the state. If we want to change society, we must stop the subordination of our activity to abstract labour, do something else. — John Holloway

When I hit a wall I hit it hard. I want that wall to know that it has been in a fight! — Mark Anthony Peterson

The first time I fell into a depression I was waiting tables at an Outback Steakhouse. — Jade Bos

The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to. — David Mamet

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think. — Soren Kierkegaard