Uchitelle Quotes & Sayings

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out. — Anthony Horowitz

As Louis Uchitelle has reported in the New York Times, many employers will offer almost anything - free meals, subsidized transportation, store discounts - rather than raise wages. The reason for this, in the words of one employer, is that such extras "can be shed more easily" than wage increases when changes in the market seem to make them unnecessary.7 In the same spirit, automobile manufacturers would rather offer their customers cash rebates than reduced prices; the advantage of the rebate is that it seems like a gift and can be withdrawn without explanation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

First, let me finish. Then interrupt. — Brian Spellman

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere. — Robert Smith

The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night: and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamp-lighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Never trust guys with tunics!i did that once ... by the way i dont have a tunic. — Dumitru Mardari

A people that has experienced all that the Germans have been through, naturally offers fertile soil for the extremists. — Gustav Stresemann

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand — Ian Healy

Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had. — Garrison Keillor