Wallpapering Quotes & Sayings

It always seemed, and still seems, ridiculously simple to say that if one can acquire a diversified group of common stocks at a price less than the applicable net current assets alone - after deducting all prior claims, and counting as zero the fixed and other assets - the results should be quite satisfactory. — Benjamin Graham

At Bob Dylan's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, Bruce Springsteen described hearing Dylan's music for the very first time. Springsteen was fifteen, he said, riding in the car with his mother, idly listening to the radio, when "Like a Rolling Stone" came on. It was as though, Springsteen recalled, "somebody took his boot and kicked open the door to your mind." His mother's verdict: "That man can't sing." Mrs. Springsteen's response reminds us that we don't all react the same way to the same experience - and her son's reminds us that life holds moments when our perspective dramatically shifts, when our assumptions are deeply challenged, when we see new possibilities or sense for the first time that whatever has been holding us back from freedom or creativity or new ventures might actually be overcome. There — Sharon Salzberg

What I have always loved most in men is imperfection. — Linn Ullmann

Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it's fear. — Paul Beatty

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?' — Gabriel Mann

I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell. — Joanna Russ

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering. — Marilyn Vos Savant

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific! — Harrison Birtwistle

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the God idea. — Emma Goldman

In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes — Robert Klein

I hope you know that I will never let you go. Even if shit gets bad, I'm not letting you go. I will fucking kill anything or anyone that comes between us if I have to. And if you ever think about walking away, you'll have a fucking fight on your hands, babe. — Nina Levine

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist. — Asne Seierstad