Yearlong Def Quotes & Sayings

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. — Derek Bok

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself. — Valerie Simpson

Modesty was made for the ugly. — Theophile Gautier

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous. — Alex Tabarrok

Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books. — Margo Lanagan

In the formative present, you are becoming who you will be in the future. — Sarah Lynn Phillips

One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book) — Murzban F. Shroff

Laws are silent in times of war. — Pierce Brown

What grabs our mental spotlight is illicit sex, violent death, and Walter Mittyish leaps of status. Now — Steven Pinker

Robin looked at Daniel and had the meanest thought of her life: "He'll do. — Jami Attenberg

Wishful thinking is a powerful force. — Susan Wiggs