"You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work."

-- Christina Romer

#Recovery Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Medicine Quotes

“Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
“We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.”
“Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.”

Source : Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.8, Canongate Books
“If I was concerned about my legacy, thereâ€™s no way I would ever sit there [and be a reality-show judge]. Once your career becomes about someÂ¬thing other than the music, then thatâ€™s what it is. Iâ€™ll never make that mistake.”
“A fretful fancy is constantly flinging its possessor into gratuitous tophets.”
“I'm not pro-war. But I think war has been the dominant condition of humankind, and peace has been the anomaly - certainly sustained periods of peace that profit great masses of people - and I think war has worked, even awful hellish wars: worked to staunch fascist aggression in Europe, worked to preserve the Union after secession in the United States, etc. Not always, maybe not often, but to say never is to reject history in favor of a wishful unreality.”

Source : "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.
“I've never gotten hired for drama because I'm a good improviser. I don't think people who write drama scripts want you playing with them as much.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.
“The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.”

Source : Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

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