Nordette Generic Quotes & Sayings

'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents. — Maria Semple

But as a war time president James Madison did not display dynamic leadership. Andrew Jackson acknowledged Madison " a great civilian," but declared " the mind of a philosopher could not dwell on blood and carnage with any composure," and judged his talents " not fitted for a stormy sea. — Andrew Jackson

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. — James Russell Lowell

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp. — Elvis Presley

Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing. — Patricia MacLachlan

Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human. — Lewis Mumford

I just have to concentrate on doing what I do. — Laura Linney

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character. — Juno Temple

I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't think that I would be very happy, getting inundated by financial issues. I would love to co-direct with somebody because that would be a real freedom and an adventure, and then I could leave all the pain and misery to them. I'm not glib about it. I would take the responsibility to make a really good movie. — Lance Henriksen

All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships. — Ha-Joon Chang

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. — Sydney J. Harris

Tell David that all I want for the bride price is 100 Philistine foreskins! — Anonymous

[L]ike the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. — Henry David Thoreau

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them. — Ed Asner