Prriennel Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.
[A Conversation with Alice Munro, BookBrowse, 1998] — Alice Munro

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. — George Foreman

In India, we kind of concentrate only on weight loss. I want to teach people that it is very important to be strong and fit, rather than just thin. — Bipasha Basu

I was a dancer for fifteen years, and I think a lot of what dancing gives you crosses over so much into anything to do with fighting, martial arts, anything action. — Sharni Vinson

Kindness, not rituals, is mankind's greatest prayer. — Debasish Mridha

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery ... and then a meal. — Emmy Rossum

Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Street and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history. — David Stockman

I'm just a child who's learned to impersonate an adult. — Michael Cunningham