Trenell Murphy Quotes & Sayings

The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society? ... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time? — Fernand Braudel

Semper Fidelis
Dawn star flares on disk of night
I fall, sun rises — Neal Stephenson

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people. — River Phoenix

Neither is a memoir the same as a biography, which aims for the most objective, factual account of a life. A memoir, as I understand it, makes no pretense of denying its subjectivity. Its matter is one person's memory, and memory by nature is selective and colored by emotion. Others who participated in the events I describe will no doubt remember some details differently, though I hope we would agree on the essential truths. I have taken no liberties with the past as I remember it, used no fictional devices beyond reconstructing conversations from memory. I have not blended characters, or bent chronology to convenience. And yet I have tried to tell a good story. — Sonia Sotomayor

In the bloodied fingers of this vision of evil was the heart of the chief of police - still beating. — Craig A. McDonough

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid. — Tommy Armour

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters. — Tracey Ullman

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm