Nuncle And Other Stories Quotes & Sayings

I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way. — Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit. — J.C. Ryle

She told him that she wished there were another commandment, an eleventh etched into the tablets: Do not change. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind. — Daisaku Ikeda

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. — Henry Miller

In my book, water was only good for one thing ... when I remember what that is, I'll let you know. — R.K. Lewis

What was he to do this evening to pass the time? He might as well go to the Rainbow, and hear the talk about the cock-fighting: everybody was there, and what else was there to be done? Though, for his own part, he did not care a button for cock-fighting. Snuff, the brown spaniel, who had placed herself in front of him, and had been watching him for some time, now jumped up in impatience for the expected caress. But Godfrey thrust her away without looking at her, and left the room, followed humbly by the unresenting Snuff - perhaps because she saw no other career open to her. — George Eliot

And It's not entirely true that I've never been in love. I had a pet gerbil in first grade.... — Rachel Cohn

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do ... — Tony Stewart

I see all mythology as one tradition, a way of disseminating knowledge that must come to us in code so that we can live sanely with it, since some forms of knowledge are too dark, or too complex, to be plainly spoken. And so we have these weird (and also sometimes entertaining and surprising and heartening) tales that belong to all of us. — Helen Oyeyemi

The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it? — Deyth Banger

First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be between the movies. I wish Dakota the best, not only because of this movie. I know the expectations of these movies are enormous but we know-every member of the family, brother, sister, real father-that she's a good actress. — Antonio Banderas

You audition, and then you go and do what's called a test, your network test. So you have to go in front of the network and do it, and the network has to sign off on you. — Sean Maher

The Highest Being reveals himself in man. — Thomas Carlyle