Buiter 2008 Quotes

#1. [...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.

Steven Brust

#2. I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

Sean Astin

#3. We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. There must be dark shadows in the picture - to bring out the beauty of the lights.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

#6. The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen's

Radclyffe Hall

#7. A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Ovid

#8. What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.

William Glasser

#9. All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

Paul Caponigro

#10. I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. Everything else can roast in Satan's left armpit!

Sara Wolf