Othatsgood Quotes & Sayings

Most of us have adopted a strategy to get along called satisficing, a term coined by the Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon, one of the founders of the fields of organization theory and information processing. Simon wanted a word to describe not getting the very best option but one that was good enough. For things that don't matter critically, we make a choice that satisfies us and is deemed sufficient. — Daniel J. Levitin

Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women. — Paz Vega

It's a perfectly handy skill for any boy to know." "Certainly it is, if he needs to hail a passing tugboat. — Donna Tartt

Not every programme dealing with issues of global significance has to be fronted by last week's winner of Have I Got News For You-but I suppose you might be wrong. — Jonathan Dimbleby

Hearts are connected by the slenderest of threads. — Marty Rubin

Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty. — Jean-Paul Sartre

The person who said 'time heals all wounds' never met an aspie — Tina J. Richardson

Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. — C.S. Lewis

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. — Warren Zevon

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks — Stephen King

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. — Jean Baudrillard

Just as the development of earth art and installation art stemmed from the idea of taking art out of the galleries, the basis of my involvement with public art is a continuation of wall drawings. — Sol LeWitt

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.' — Jonathan Kozol

People defend nothing more violently than the pretenses they live by. — Allen Drury

Imagine a master painting that's never finished ... when you can only build on previous work, you become limited by what you can paint ... If you are in the midst of painting a forest full of tall tress and hanging vines, it is rather difficult to wake up the next day and suddenly turn that paining into the beach and ocean ... We have to treat each day like a black canvas on which we can paint. Yesterday might have been paining flowers, but today you can paint cars or horses. A new day represents a chance for renewal. — Ian K. Smith