Kostelanetz Christmas Quotes & Sayings

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead. — Charles Krauthammer

Still, the ground was only really prepared for capitalism in the familiar sense of the term when the merchants began to organize themselves into eternal bodies as a way to win monopolies, legal or de facto, and avoid the ordinary risks of trade. — David Graeber

I just don't see why the past has to matter. — Cassandra Clare

It would be unreasonable to give you credit for being incredibly beautiful. — Graeme Simsion

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress. — Gene Tierney

She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter. — Alice Hoffman

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Sixty years ago the idea of everyone having a telephone in their pockets was science fiction. Our whole way of life is science fiction, if you look at it from the past. — Sam Hawksmoor

To be purposeful people who can get things done, we need to be able to organize our desires, goals, time, and efforts. This is an important aspect of functioning. — Henry Cloud

I just discovered that there were so many lost movies that were all mine to take if I wanted to take them. I was drunk on greed when I encountered this motherlode of utterly fascinating narratives that time's great river washed up on its banks for me to just scavenge, and not even rub clean, just repurpose and take credit for. It was kind of one of those weird dreams that where you keep finding free money. — Guy Maddin

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge — China Mieville