"[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste."

-- Horace Walpole

#Half Quotes #Taste Quotes #Being True Quotes

“I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.”
“My approach is that fashion must always be optimistic, and that a woman will always be enticed by beautiful clothes.”
“Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades”

Source : Nicholas Stern, Great Britain. Treasury (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.319, Cambridge University Press
“Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.”

Source : "About Neon Genesis Evangelion". Newtype in Protoculture Addicts #43, 11\96,
“Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.”
“You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.”
“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ?”
“I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.”

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