Alyosha Sailboat Quotes

#1. Every true novelist listens for that suprapersonal wisdom, which explains why great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more intelligent than their books should go into another line of work.

Milan Kundera

#2. I thought of how she'd been at three, at six, at nine. No one warns you about the losses. No one tells you you'll miss them, those earlier children. They disappear, but are they still there, sealed one inside the next like those little wooden Russian dolls?

Ann Harleman

#3. You don't help a depressed economy by giving control of its resources to politicians.

Robert P. Murphy

#4. I was Chairman Mao's dog. What he said to bite, I bit.

Jiang Qing

#5. Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.

Pearl Zhu

#6. the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice - and I don't say I'm blaming those that hold it.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Bill Vaughan

#8. In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

Steven Pinker

#9. I mean, who wants to be the fucking goddess of macrame?

Neal Stephenson

#10. Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Nicola Sturgeon

#11. Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.

Philip Emeagwali

#12. I used to be under the impression that if a role wasn't difficult, then there was nothing happening. Then a director said to me: 'Ken, you've got to realise, acting can be fun, too.'

Ken Stott

#13. Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Robert Battle

#14. Remember this: anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Anthony Robbins