"Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher."

-- Gene Spafford

#Wish Quotes #Cows Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand.”

Source : Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.27, Academic Press
“King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!”
“I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.”

Source : Interview with David B. Green, www.haaretz.com. January 3, 2010.
“One lawyer told me that he never drinks water or eats in front of the jury because they can't do either one.”
“I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.”
“I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.”
“And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.”
“At the end of the day, I think I understand the dynamic that we face. And I'm best prepared to be commander in chief on day one, with all due respect to my other colleagues, including Hillary Clinton.”

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