Txtbuff Quotes & Sayings

'Reinventing the Bazaar,' by John McMillan, is a great and fun introduction to the wild variety and importance of markets throughout history and around the world. I finally understood how a Middle Eastern souk actually works economically and how to compare that to modern-day telecom-spectrum auctions. I love that book. — Adam Davidson

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think. — Maya Lin

Art is not an elitist gift for a few select people. Art is for everyone. — Richard Attenborough

Are we to execrate our age- or all ages?
Do we think of Buddha as withdrawing from the world on account of his contemporaries? — Emil Cioran

When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband. — Aristophanes

Pictures ... are also opinions ... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of. — John Steinbeck