Albert Lasker Quotes

#1. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.

Tim O'Brien

#2. Cycles of shortage and surplus characterize the entire history of oil.

Daniel Yergin

#3. With the grin of one who mistakenly thinks he's a wit when he's only half a one.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

John Green

#5. 'Reach for a (cigarette) instead of a sweet' - ... advertising slogan..(of) Albert Lasker, (with) Mary Lasker, health philanthropist, and originator of the Lasker Awards, an American version of the Nobel Prize ... and Memorial Sloan Kettering trustees.

Ralph W. Moss

#6. Mitch's take on humanity had deteriorated to the point where he assumed someone was lying if her lips were moving.

Jennifer Crusie

#7. Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.

Terry Pratchett