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“If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,”
Source : "MSNBC's Martin Bashir Outrageously Compares Rick Santorum to Mass Murderer Joseph Stalin" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. February 14, 2012.
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“The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.”
Source : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
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“My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.”
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“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”
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“No one ever likes the right person.”
Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.261, Vintage
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“Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.”
Source : Rudolf Leuckart (1886). “The Parasites of Man, and the Diseases which Proceed from Them: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”
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“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.”
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“Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.”