Alexandrescu Vladimir Quotes

#1. The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which still remained free. The woman's slavery was assumed to be for life.

Henry Adams

#2. The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

Nick Hornby

#3. It is no good thinking about how life will get better once you have a new television or a new job. You must stop hoping for change. You must simply be it.

Rachel Joyce

#4. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.

Anasazi Foundation

#5. Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly..

Eoin Colfer

#6. But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Nancy Werlin

#7. I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

Jack Irons

#8. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Burton Malkiel

#9. Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.

Mikhail Bulgakov