Tsort 1993 Quotes & Sayings

Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his - — J.K. Rowling

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top. — Norman Cousins

A properly designed tax system can strike a balance between helping the poor and, at the same time, giving people the incentive to work. — Eric Maskin

I left this conversation hours ago, but somehow my mouth is still moving, words are still forming, and none have seemed to offend. Amazing, the mind. My mind, I mean. Not hers. — Peter Hedges

Physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world," and that "we have measured the value of the world with categories that refer to a purely fabricated world. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66. — Fred Couples

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy. — Johnny Winter

A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them. — David Foster Wallace

As James Surowiecki noted in a New Yorker article, given a choice between developing antibiotics that people will take every day for two weeks and antidepressants that people will take every day for ever, drug companies not surprisingly opt for the latter. Although a few antibiotics have been toughened up a bit, the pharmaceutical industry hasn't given us an entirely new antibiotic since the 1970s. — Bill Bryson

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake. — Paul Gibbons