Worldlings Pleasures Quotes & Sayings

It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often fail to behave with the rationality expected of them. — Kaushik Basu

She came from the Institute of Sexy Librarians and Secretaries. It's that place in man-heaven where all you babes in tight skirts and glasses with your hair pulled up are born. — Anna Bishop Barker

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes. — Noam Chomsky

Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you. — Booker T. Washington

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by. — Barry Mann

The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders gets in front of a microphone. Misogynist is as misogynist does. The GOP and its bloviating pundits don't like women and they are unable to hide it, nor do they seem to make much attempt to do so. — Henry Rollins

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone

One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys." — Craig Finn

The woman's mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a man-made world, but to create a human world by the infusion of the feminine element into all of its activities. — Margaret Thatcher

It hasn't been easy, you know. Having the dead for company. Knowing that I'll never be accepted by the living. Only the dead respects me, and they only do that out of fear. — Rick Riordan

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully. — Richard Dean Anderson