"I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do."

-- Christina Romer

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Underwater Quotes

“The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.”

Source : "The American Mercury" Magazine, Volume 93, 1961.
“I'll live in another world, then.”

Source : Alison McGhee (2013). “All Rivers Flow to the Sea”, p.80, Candlewick Press
“Cosmic evolution may teach us how the good and evil tendencies of man may have come about; but, in itself, it is incompetent to furnish any better reason why what we call good is preferable to what we call evil than we had before. Some day, I doubt not, we shall arrive at an understanding of the evolution of the aesthetic faculty; but all the understanding in the world will neither increase nor diminish the force of the intuition that this is beautiful and that is ugly.”
“Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.”
“The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.”
“Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.”

Source : "The Thin Man". Book by Dashiell Hammett, 1929.
“I... do... not... do... lightning.”
“If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.”

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