Vincent Smith And Alice Silkworth Quotes & Sayings

Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it. — Hugh Sidey

The more we have at stake, the harder it is to make the leap into writing. The more we think about who's going to read it, what they're going to think, how many copies will be printed, whether this magazine or that magazine will accept it for publication, the further away we are from accomplishing anything alive on the page. — Dani Shapiro

In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions. — Janet Yellen

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them. — Hosni Mubarak

Everything that is exquisite hides itself. — Philibert Joseph Roux

You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. — William Shakespeare

A dead love never dies. — Pedro Almodovar

Youth! There is nothing like it. It's absurd to
talk of the ignorance of youth. The only people whose opinions I listen to now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has
revealed to them her last wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they
solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks and knew absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde

Friendship is the greatest element in human life. — Euginia Herlihy

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet. — Rohinton Mistry

You don't belong in this world, Abbey. You are not made for the dark. — F.J. Gale

Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you. — Steve Maraboli