Torden The Bastion Quotes & Sayings

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on. — Gerry Mulligan

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. - Elana's father — Sylvia Engdahl

The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Maybe you cannot be the CEO of a multinational corporation, but you can frighten a few people, or cause them to scurry around like chickens, or steal from them, or - maybe best of all - create situations that cause them to feel bad about themselves. And this is power, especially when the people you manipulate are superior to you in some way. Most invigorating of all is to bring down people who are smarter or more accomplished than you, or perhaps classier, more attractive or popular or morally admirable. This is not only good fun; it is existential vengeance. And without a conscience, it is amazingly easy to do. You quietly lie to the boss or to the boss's boss, cry some crocodile tears, or sabotage a coworker's project, or gaslight a patient (or a child), bait people with promises, or provide a little misinformation that will never be traced back to you. — Martha Stout

In Africa ... age is not important over there. They don't care. — Akon

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy. — Kylie Minogue

There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class. — Mordecai Richler

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth. — Christina Romer