Twemlows Quotes & Sayings

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? — Alan Greenspan

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. — Mary Calderone

After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. — Jimmy Carr

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego. — Susumu Tonegawa

Dickens had, with all his genius, the narrow short sight of his day and class, sentimental tears for poverty but no vision to remove it except by inviting everybody to be as noble a fellow as himself. War — Stephen Leacock

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. — Daniel Kahneman

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person. — Seneca The Younger

Drawing in a deep breath, she smacked his bare ass. Hard. Aidan Fitzgerald, you better fuck me like you mean it! — Katie Ashley

Ululation. We got animals inside of us, man. We've got all this power.
- The Son — Patrick Somerville

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made. — Regina King

The true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque. — Ann Landers