Tragbark Quotes & Sayings

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. — Antoine Rivarol

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself. — John Keats

Theater is a really exciting place to return to all the time because it's incredible training for an actor. — Zoe Lister-Jones

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces. — Jose Carreras

Chinese commentaries stress the opportunity that the investments and aid they offer presents to developing countries to avoid the hazards of reliance on Western dominated financial institutions: austerity programs that call for severe cuts in state-subsidized social welfare, deregulation of state-owned facilities, trade liberalization, and an open door for multinational corporation investment. — Melvin Gurtov

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did. — Julian Clary

His argument, as set out in The Problems of Philosophy, was based on the empirical fact that we are not only aware of things but are also, very frequently, aware of being aware of them. — A.J. Ayer

Conformity can be costly in a world of uncertainty which requires innovative institutional creation because no one can know the right path to survival. Over time, the richer the cultural context in terms of providing multiple experimentation and creative competition, the more likely the successful survival of the society — Douglass North

The command 'become hard! ', the deep conviction that all creators are hard, is the really distinctive sign of a Dionysian nature. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, long ago, my great mentor in graduate school, the late Darb, he said if you're writing for a popular audience, you do not start by saying, 'Consider a small, open economy..' You say, 'In Belgium. — Paul Krugman