Mikowski Karlin Quotes & Sayings

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do. — Nathan Myhrvold

Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis. — Tony Perrottet

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road. — Theophilus London

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. — Joseph Butler

A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. — Edward Abbey

Sometimes sex is just a way to escape having to talk to that person. — Dane Cook

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s. — James Grant

There are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light,
And every kind of love makes a glory in the night.
There is love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest,
But the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. — Henry Van Dyke

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on earth. — Linji Yixuan

Movies endorsed unwanted ideas by putting them into story form and resolving them up there on the screen. The goal was, as always, identification, but also relief. — Jeanine Basinger