Jack Travis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

  • The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

  • Adam Smith was not a big fan of the pursuit of fame and fortune. His view of what we truly want, of what really makes us happy, cuts to the core of things. It takes him only twelve words to get to the heart of the matter: Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely.

  • And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.

  • The main character of any living system is openness.

  • I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

  • I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

  • The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  • If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

  • There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!