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“Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.”
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“The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.”
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“If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people are allowed to make money. Looks can be deceiving, because there's no quid pro quo here.”
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“Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.”
Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Literary Occasions: Essays”, p.190, Pan Macmillan
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“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”
Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”
Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “Anywhere but Here”, p.57, Vintage
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“That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.”
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“If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.”
Source : Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult
