Malthuss Quotes & Sayings

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I'm not going to lose it. — Ross Macdonald

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves
to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country! — John Irving

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again. — Michael Pollan

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them ... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy. — Pearl S. Buck

[They] talked mostly of their memories, for the past was all they had - the present being such a changable, odd thing, and the future too far away. — Jayne Fresina

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh. It's almost too funny to get an award. — Denis Leary