Smileage Menchies Quotes & Sayings

Some libertarians use the example of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, in which a dream experiment was conducted. All street signs were removed. The deregulation led to an increase in safety, confirming the antifragility of attention at work, how it is whetted by a sense of danger and responsibility. As a result, many German and Dutch towns have reduced the number of street signs. We saw a version of the Drachten effect in Chapter 2 in the discussion of the automation of planes, which produces the exact opposite effect than what is intended by making pilots lose alertness. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady. — Amy Sedaris

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable. — Michael Ignatieff

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls. — Mahatma Gandhi

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night — Robert McCammon

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet. — Patton Oswalt

I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on! — Tori Spelling

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement. — Mark Frost

He shrugged. "You're not going to like it, I'm afraid."
"Well ... to be honest, I don't like anything. — G.A. Aiken

I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science. — Mark Mason

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes. — David Duchovny

I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose. — Osamu Dazai