Laffer Associates Quotes & Sayings

According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege. — Swami Vivekananda

The Royals work very hard. — Julian Ovenden

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

The very best thing you can give someone is what they want. — Marshall Sylver

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. — Carl Sandburg

Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available. — Li Ka-shing

Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. — Tyler Cowen

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. — Michael Showalter

I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things. — Joe Mantegna

A particularly significant example of brain against body, or measures against matter, is urban man's total slavery to clocks. A clock is a convenient device for arranging to meet a friend, or for helping people to do things together, although things of this kind happened long before they were invented. Clocks should not be smashed; they should simply be kept in their place. And they are very much out of place when we try to adapt our biological rhythms of eating, sleeping, evacuation, working, and relaxing to their uniform circular rotation. Our slavery to these mechanical drill masters has gone so far and our whole culture is so involved with it that reform is a forlorn hope; without them civilization would collapse entirely. A less brainy culture would learn to synchronize its body rhythms rather than its clocks. — Alan W. Watts

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance. — Scott Aukerman

There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do. — Sheri Reynolds