Nynpi Quotes & Sayings

I'm a quiet person, and I live a quiet, pleasant, ordinary, simple life. — Mary McGarry Morris

Few intellectual tyrannies can be more recalcitrant than the truths that everybody knows and nearly no one can defend with any decent data (for who needs proof of anything so obvious). And few intellectual activities can be more salutary than attempts to find out whether these rocks of ages might crumble at the slightest tap of an informational hammer. — Stephen Jay Gould

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone. — Winston Churchill

I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals. — Nick Harkaway

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London. — Zac Goldsmith

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. — David Ricardo

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. — Sting