Shirer Books Quotes & Sayings

A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. — Lord Chesterfield

She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight. — Grace Slick

Good looks only take you so far. — Angie Everhart

Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung disease, dementia and cancer. — Liz Miller

I press my lips to her temple, tightening my arms around her. Let's see what finds us. — Nina Lane

If a business is not ethical, it will fail, perhaps not right away but eventually. — John Templeton

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to. — Julianne Moore

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. — Noam Chomsky

A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device. — Mary Roach