Spiridonov Nikola Quotes & Sayings

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. — Thomas Sowell

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences. — John Stuart Mill

One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare. — Robert Motherwell

Goodwill to Spazzy up in gerbil heaven. Sorry sorry sorry. I stopped eating meat the day of the massacre, as penance for Spazzy. I've been a vegetarian since age six, all for the love of a gerbil. — Rachel Cohn

You can't change the past, only the future, and the only place you could change the future was in the present. That's what they said. — Kate Atkinson

You smell good. It's ... it's nice to breathe you in again. I missed it, she said. — Alexia Purdy

Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun. — Kate DiCamillo

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a harbinger of the metric system. — Imraan Coovadia

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything. — Twyla Tharp

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without? — Jessi Klein

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation. — Hiam Abbass