Literature Quotes - Page 70

I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis... In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

Folly always knows the answer.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family [of the child]. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.