"People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract."

-- Michael Palin

#Stupid Quotes #People Quotes #Spur Of The Moment Quotes

“I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“All millionaires love a baked apple.”

Source : 'Vainglory' (1915) ch. 13
“Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.”
“I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.”

Source : "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. September, 1997.
“Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”
“We're in a strange state in our world where we sort of have that belief - and I have it too - that if it's written down there's got to be some truth in it. We haven't quite got to the spot where you go: "Well, it doesn't necessarily mean it's true." It could actually be completely made up and made to look very nice. So, we have to get to the point where scandal and those kinds of things are less and less important because otherwise we won't have anyone willing to run as politicians.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.”
“Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.”

Source : "Full Employment and Price Stability: The Macroeconomic Vision of William S. Vickrey".

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