Pachter Factor Quotes & Sayings

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen. — Chris Van Allsburg

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards

When Dr. Samuel Johnson had completed the first real dictionary of the English language, he was visited by a delegation of respectable old ladies who wished to congratulate him for not including any indecent words. His response - which was that he was interested to see that the ladies had been looking them up - contains almost all that needs to be said on this point. — Christopher Hitchens

Winning takes precedence over all. There's no gray area. No almosts. — Kobe Bryant

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money. — Dorothea Benton Frank

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books. — Richard Flanagan

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression. — Sigmund Freud

I look like people that walk down the street. I don't have perfect boobs, I don't have zero cellulite - of course I don't - and I'm curvy. If that is something that makes women feel empowered in any way, that's great. — Kate Winslet

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on. — Alan Shepard

There are only two sources of human vice - idleness and superstition, and only two virtues - activity and intelligence. — Leo Tolstoy

That's the fix for all of this? Eat Kisses?" I laugh, wishing life were just that easy: all things fixable with chocolate. — K. Bromberg

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home. — William Shakespeare

I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi. — Paul Farmer