Malinalies Quotes & Sayings

I know the most important faculty to develop is one for hard, continuous and varied work and living; but the difference between knowing this and doing anything consistent about it is often abysmal. — James Agee

Normally, I never dress up. — Roberto Cavalli

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands. — Simon Kuznets

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. — Phillips Brooks

Before I started MakerBot, I was creating cool stuff and sharing it with the Internet. That's how I knew all the folks at BoingBoing, at Engadget and Gizmodo. — Bre Pettis

Many people are smarter than their stupid bosses. — Toba Beta

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been. — Audrey Hepburn

He'd waited a thousand years for her, and she would know him for less than two weeks. — Trinity Faegen

There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. — Milton Friedman

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. — Charles Dickens

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium ... — George Antheil

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department. — Oren Moverman

The Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger (tutor to Nero) complained that his peers were wasting time and money accumulating too many books, admonishing that "the abundance of books is a distraction." Instead, Seneca recommended focusing on a limited number of good books, to be read thoroughly and repeatedly. — Daniel J. Levitin

Now a second-order vain person is a vain person who's also vain about appearing to have an utter lack of vanity. Who's enormously afraid that other people will perceive him as vain. A second-order vain person will sit up late learning jokes in order to appear funny and charming, but will deny that he sits up late learning jokes. Or he'll perhaps even try to give the impression that he doesn't regard himself as funny at all. — David Foster Wallace