Salivette Quotes & Sayings

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries. — Adam Smith

When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch. — David Gregory

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less. — M. John Harrison

Cheaper still, I might miss my tip. — Georgette Heyer

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard. — Archibald MacLeish

You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It's not their fault they want to kick you and it's certainly not yours. It's just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you. — Initially NO

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. — Marilyn Monroe

You can't believe I would knowingly get involved with a drug user. <> I knowingly got involved with a guy who plays the tuba. Finish the story. — Rainbow Rowell

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. — Yahoo Serious

To a certain extent, Darwinian gradualism is not much different from biblical creationism. This too is a collection of assumptions that has evolved into a belief system. The core idea advanced in the theory of evolution, the allegation that species have evolved along the time into different ones by the way of acquiring additional parts or by modifying the existing ones is based on an infinite of missing links, as in missing evidence, and on blind belief in the miracles of gradualism and natural selection. — Paul Greene