Mahlia Watson Quotes & Sayings

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago. — Paul Samuelson

I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships. — Maureen Johnson

Don't start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I never knew words could be so sharp, until the wrong ones cut me — Foz Meadows

This man, this impostor of a man, can kill my body but he can't touch my soul. — Cynthia Hand

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. — Scarlett Johansson

The pandemic of violence always gets explained as anything but gender, anything but what would seem to be the broadest explanatory pattern of all. — Rebecca Solnit

ever since that time of unbound paranoia the one unbreakable law of the British secret services has been: Thou shalt not snoop on Number Ten. Because we are not in the business of generating policy - it's not a task for which agencies like ours are suited, and in those countries where spooks set policy, it always ends in tears. We vet politicians on the way up - that's an entirely different matter - but by the time they're moving into Number Ten they should already be above suspicion; if they aren't, we haven't been doing our job properly. And — Charles Stross

I began by working in a study in an attic, but for many years, I've used a small room in a library. What matters to me isn't decor or comfort but only quiet. I need to hear the rhythms of phrases, the music of sentences. Any place that allows me to do that is good enough. — Steven Millhauser

It was the dilemma of the watchers: they didn't want to wait around for nothing at all, some idiot standing on the precipice of the towers, but they didn't want to miss the moment either, if he slipped, or got arrested, or dove, arms stretched. — Colum McCann

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep. — Flann O'Brien

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some. — Paul Krugman