Torstensons Quotes & Sayings

I learned something important from my short time as a market vendor: once you start trading for yourself, you start thinking for yourself. Before the public distribution system collapsed, the government alone decided who would survive and who would starve. The markets took away the government's control. — Yeonmi Park

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough. Trying to make it through by staying hard and phallocentric. To me, that is just an impoverished conception of what it is to be a black male. It doesn't do justice to my grandfather, my father, my brother - or just the black men I grew up with. — Cornel West

i rearrange the jagged stars of your past — Andie Mitchell

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Art should be born from the materials. — Jean Dubuffet

Independent thinking is not just helpful in becoming a successful investor, it's required. — Whitney Tilson

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development. — George Papandreou

A trial, it often came down to who had the best story. — Jodi Picoult

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain. — Douglas Trumbull

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honesty's against all common Sense. — John Wilmot

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it. — Lajos Egri

Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the run, people with appointments to keep and schedules to meet. — Jeannette Walls

Love isn't something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic. — Amy Engel

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do ... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football. — Ndamukong Suh