Meredith Whitney famous quotes

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  • Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

  • There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  • I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

  • So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

  • Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

  • The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

  • In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

  • Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without