Anne Koedt Quotes

#1. He's not a bad guy really, except he's so crooked, you shake hands with him you better count your fingers afterwards.

Ian Fleming

#2. Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Naveen Jain

#3. If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#4. Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.

Edward Abbey

#5. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!

Eve Arden

#6. Hence as a private man has a right to say what wages he will give in his private affairs, so has a Community to determine what they will give and grant of their substance for the Administration of public affairs.

Samuel Adams

#7. The 'C' students run the world.

Harry Truman

#8. Giving someone shit, Rodney knew was a sign of love in Catholic families. And the same held true for Rodney and his friends. But he wished it weren't Keith's default setting, his auto-reply to everything.

Steve Rushin

#9. To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No ...

Constantine P. Cavafy

#10. We do not believe that capitalism, or any economic system, is the cause of female oppression, nor do we believe that female oppression will disappear as a result of purely economic revolution.

Anne Koedt

#11. Of the first few hauntings I investigated with Lockwood & Co. I intend to say little, in part to protect the identity of the victims, in part because of the gruesome nature of the incidents, but mainly because, in a variety of ingenious ways, we succeeded in messing them all up.

Jonathan Stroud

#12. 'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

Keanu Reeves

#13. Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

Susan Hill