Swiren And Witzleb Quotes & Sayings

Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. — Elizabeth Warren

I've raised my daughter with no television. — Natalie Merchant

I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that. — Joel Kinnaman

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just couldn't be dead any longer. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I did a couple of movies in Brazil, and the actors were incredibly congenial and hung out together a lot. Even the biggest stars would do radio commercials - they're not put on a pedestal like they are in the United States. — Alan Arkin

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon. — Spencer Johnson

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them. — Sidney Blumenthal

In a print interview, as you may or may not know, they [editors] can do whatever they want. And they do. This is why most people are more hesitant to do print, because they can change it, and they do change it. They even change things that are in quotation marks, which is a pet peeve of mine. I've said to numerous reporters, "Would you read me back my direct quotes?" And they always say no. They always say that's against the policy. — Fran Lebowitz

I'm so sorry, I'm trying to keep your family from putting a hit on Tate if he elopes with the prodigal daughter."
"They wouldn't," Tate said. "They love me."
"Not that much they don't," Mel said — Jenn McKinlay

Love is unconditional when you don't expect anything from the beloved. — Debasish Mridha

I'm a novelist: I spend a great part of my day pretending to myself that I'm in a different world, being a different person, faced with decisions I pretend I haven't created. — Nick Harkaway