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“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”
Source : Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.9, Academic Press
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“Attitude is the mind's paintbrush; it can color any situation.”
Source : Barbara Johnson (2000). “Leaking Laffs Between Pampers and Depends”, p.290, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.”
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“[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.”
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“It is completely irresponsible, if not worse, for members of the media to be calling our press secretary a liar and worse. On Twitter and Facebook and elsewhere. And in articles. That is not the way to start relationships with the press.”
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“I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons.”
Source : Jana Oliver (2013). “Demon Trappers 1-3: Forsaken, Forbidden, Forgiven”, p.123, Pan Macmillan
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“And when I'm in my car I'm laid back I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat But that's flat”
Source : Song: I Wish, Album: I Wish, 1995
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“The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.”
