Sorrai Quotes & Sayings

It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The use of reading, Gibbon says somewhere, is to aid us in thinking. I have always disagreed with Gibbon over that; he may have used literature to help him think, but for me, often, and for most of the human race I reckon (since I have no reason to think myself unique) books can be a mind-stupefying drug, employed to banish thought, not to invoke it. When I am unhappy I can sink into a novel as into unconsciousness. Blessed War and Peace, thrice blessed Mansfield Park; how many potential suicides have their pages distracted and soothed and entertained past the danger point? — Joan Aiken

People who don't know me well enough might say I'm delusional and paranoid, but they're just out to get me. — Lance Carbuncle

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq. — Hans Blix

Kids love watching adults act like children. It's that spirit they can relate to. — James Roday

This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries. — Isaac Hecker

In the mid-1980s, the ratio of debt to personal disposable income for American households was 65 percent. During the next two decades, U.S. household leverage more than doubled, reaching an all-time high of 133 percent in 2007. — Katherine Porter

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart. — Tim Tebow

This was supposed to be a trip about finding my own answers (and maybe finding some great shoes along the way), not about being a notch in the bedpost of Captain Freelove, no matter how fuckably handsome he was. — Penelope Ward

I have knots in my years that I can't undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught — Sue Monk Kidd

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique. — Aerin Lauder

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware. — P. J. O'Rourke