Adaptively Shortened Quotes

#1. But while I loved all of these courses, there was an irresistible attraction of economics.

Joseph Stiglitz

#2. In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Dick Van Dyke

#3. You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.

Thalia

#4. I'm such a comedy fan that I just love laughing and so admire comedians who have brought me joy.

Miranda Hart

#5. What I am, it is useless to say - those whom it concerns feel and find it out. To all others I wish only to be an obscure, steady-going private character.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#7. Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

T. Harv Eker

#8. I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

David Lange

#9. Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Alfred Austin

#10. Wherever the Government does not emanate ... from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

William Hazlitt

#11. I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.

Groucho Marx

#12. What an honor to live in a part of the world that loves good old-fashioned baking.

J. Ryan Stradal

#13. In the beginning, I was put off by the harshness of German. Someone would order a piece of cake, and it sounded as if it were an actual order, like, 'Cut the cake and lie facedown in that ditch between the cobbler and the little girl'.

David Sedaris

#14. We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

Daniel Goldin

#15. There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God?

Thomas A Kempis