Szyperski Gregory Quotes & Sayings

Open immigration can't exist with a strong social safety net; if you're going to assure healthcare and a decent income to everyone, you can't make that offer global — Paul Krugman

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with. — Martin Freeman

Family has the greatest influence, but friends make the greatest impact. — Katie Kacvinsky

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it. — Romesh Gunesekera

Its amazing that so many kids turn out to be fairly normal, considering the weird socialization they get in public schools. — Rick Santorum

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. — Alain De Botton

my hair was a mass of tangled curls just like the old days, minus — Karen Marie Moning

Beyond being normal, our obsessions are positive, empowering and absolutely necessary.
What some may view as obsessive, odd, weird, abnormal and troublesome is a necessary part of our happiness. Our interests allow us to decompress, calm down, focus our energy, and gives us a reason to be excited about life - a purpose. An absence of obsessive interest leaves me feeling alone in the darkness. — Jeannie Davide-Rivera

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim. — A. N. Wilson

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive ... The unexpected is usually not received at all. — Peter Drucker

History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are. — Shaun David Hutchinson

That the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; — Atul Gawande

As we gain information we are more likely to focus on what we don't know : Someone who knows the state capitals of 17 of 50 states may be proud of her knowledge. But someone who knows 47 may think of herself as not knowing 3 capitals — Chip Heath

I guess in life I find people who, at first glance, appear to be very typical or average, whatever that means, and then turn out to have hidden qualities. — Curtis Sittenfeld

America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we've got to do a better job of supporting poor people. — Charles Barkley