Dickson Despommier Quotes

#1. The moment you think you've won an argument is when you've lost.

Charles F. Glassman

#2. I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Chip Conley

#3. It's a house. No more and no less. There isn't a structure on earth that could last forever. But a family goes on.
-Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#5. Let the price fixed with a friend be sufficient, and even dealing with a brother call in witnesses, but laughingly.

Hesiod

#6. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Reiner

#7. I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo