Organisation Birthday Quotes & Sayings

David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight! — Ellen Frankel

The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level ... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy. — Clive James

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. — Louise Bourgeois

It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty. — Victor Hugo

Ignore the people who are laughing at you right now, because karma is going to screw them as well. — Alamvusha

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow. — Howard Nemerov

Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I can think of, they use their books to do an end run around the normal structure of scholarship, to preach ideas that few serious economists share. Often, these ideas are not just at odds with the professional consensus; they are demonstrably wrong, and sometimes terminally silly. But they sound good to the unwary reader. — Paul Krugman

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance. — Charles Comiskey

Politics is a game where only the strong survive". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

She had shins like fireplugs and hips as wide as an oven door. Her head was stuck directly onto her shoulders with the usual Prussian predilection for omitting the neck, and to watch her turn her head in the direction of Aunt Marvel's yodeling demands for attention was to watch a large and noble owl. — James Lileks

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. — Harold Pinter

He looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his eyes, from his hair, from the abstracted way in which he managed his hands. — Jens Peter Jacobsen

When we intentionally seek out the difficult tasks, we're much more likely to actually create value. — Seth Godin

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. — Jeanette Winterson