Sluiten Van Quotes & Sayings

We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression. — Camilo Villegas

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes. — Kenneth E. Boulding

I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary. — George Woodcock

I always thought he gave me that name because I have a kind of outgoing or sunny disposition. And in those days I was kinda blonde and bearded and had an afro and was bushy like a sun. So I don't know, he named me Surya Das but who knows. — Surya Das

You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. — Sam Shepard

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality. — Sasha Grey

Takes us the farther distance from the Old World to something new and revolutionary in human thought. That moral center, however, is hard to find with modern eyes. Locating it requires — Niccolo Machiavelli

If it was difficult for a visitor to find anything to eat impromptu in Moscow, Havana, Tirana, Bucharest, or Pyongyang, it took little effort to understand the connection of this difficulty with the vulgar anti-commercialism of Saint Karl and Saint Vladimir. Indeed, it would have taken all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to have understood it. — Theodore Dalrymple

In nature everything is transformed but nothing destroyed. — Maria Montessori

New Order never celebrated anything to do with Joy Division. — Peter Hook

What I have learned from working with plants over the years is that the big leafed plants are the best to absorb the energy so I like philodendrons very, very much. — Doreen Virtue

Typically, I didn't know what to say so I didn't say anything. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Terrible mania, when something happens, to enquire what. — Samuel Beckett