Ashok K. Banker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.

  • My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

  • The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.

  • When diplomacy ends, War begins.

  • Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

  • Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

  • You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  • Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

  • Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

  • The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.