Subsample Quotes & Sayings

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected. — Robert E.Lee

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think. — Don Tapscott

MEMO: DON'T FORGET THE SOOTY FOOTPRINTS. MORE
PRACTICE ON THE HO HO HO. — Terry Pratchett

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that. — Bill Burr

Declare the United States the winner and begin de-escalation. — George Aiken

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us. — Octavia Spencer

Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors. — Joel Spolsky

I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them. — Yann Tiersen

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe ... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them.
Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the ... public. — Tyler Cowen

It warms the cockles of my heart. Words chosen carefully. — Misha Collins

TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go to for a good emotional moment, and then milking those things. — Michael Brandt

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men — Alice Walker

I've lived my entire life without the approval of any of these people. I suspect I can live the rest of it the same. — Robert J. Crane

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth. — Victor Hugo