Top 100 Fink-nottle Quotes
#1. There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. For your songs to connect with people, they've got to mean something to you.
Charlie Fink
#3. Time slows when we put all of our senses into a moment. When we notice the lighting, the way their clothes hang on their body, the smell of the rain, the sounds of the birds outside. Time slows when we taste our food on all sides of our tongues.
Shawn Fink
#4. Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
Harlan Ellison
#5. I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.
Charlie Fink
#6. Don't let other people's limitations limit you. Go for what you really want ... You just might get it!
Sheri Fink
#7. Valentine's Day is a disaster. Any day that is designed to perfectly encapsulate something as messy and personal as two people in a romantic relationship would have to be. But in Night Vale it also kills people. This is called satire.
Joseph Fink
#9. I've always had this thing where I can't stop. I hate standing still.
Charlie Fink
#10. Having trouble sleeping? Are you awake at all hours? Do birds live in you? Are you crawling with insects? Is your skin jagged and hard? Are you covered in leaves and gently shaking in the gentle breeze?
Joseph Fink
#11. When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
Laurence D. Fink
#12. failed to yield to hooded figures, resulting in mandatory citywide ennui for hours.
Joseph Fink
#13. When deciding whether or not to go for your dream, remember that you don't need a bigger net, you just need bigger wings.
Sheri Fink
#14. When nothing else works, eating sure does.
Joseph Fink
#15. Now, there is some concern about the fact that, given we are in the middle of a desert, there is no actual water at the waterfront. And that is a definite drawback, I agree.
Joseph Fink
#16. No,' she shouted. She shouted it over and over because she didn't know what she could do to change anything and at least shouting made her feel better. No one could hear except the house and the faceless old woman who secretly lives in it.
Joseph Fink
#17. Concepts of triage and medical rationing are a barometer of how those in power in a society value human life.
Sheri Fink
#18. She was angry, which is the more productive cousin of fear.
Joseph Fink
#19. LAUREN: We will also fill in the giant hole out back of the Ralphs.
CECIL: But where will the people who huddle there go to huddle?
Joseph Fink
#20. I mean, I believe in mountains and all, but I understand it's a controversial viewpoint. I would never force that viewpoint on others.
Joseph Fink
#21. That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book
Sheri Fink
#22. Jackie's good arm was out the window, the sandy air tickling her skin with hundreds of inconsequential stings, a tangible Morse code saying something meaningless. Jackie
Joseph Fink
#23. You still need to work on a lot of things," Diane did not say. "I'm sorry your father isn't here," she also did not say. "But I am trying so, so hard. I am, Josh. I am, I am, I am," she did not say. As far as things go, her self-control was pretty good.
Joseph Fink
#24. There is nothing more lonely than an action taken quietly on your own, and nothing more comforting than doing that same quiet action in parallel with fellow humans doing the same action, everyone alone next to each other.
Joseph Fink
#25. I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.
Jack Nicholson
#27. Taking a shower often solved problems for her. She would find herself with thoughts that seemed to come from outside her, thoughts that would question decisions or offer suggestions or just consider life hazily in a way that made it seem like the thoughts could not possibly be her own.
Joseph Fink
#28. Such are the foolish dreams of idealistic children who believe that anything can possibly get better over time.
Joseph Fink
#29. In terms of tacos, she was doing fine.
Joseph Fink
#30. Fink had a full bowl and grinned at me as he sat back on the bench. "It would help if you used words like 'please' and 'thank you.'"
"Then I'll thank you to please stay out of my business.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#31. History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.
Joseph Fink
#32. People arrived in town all the time. It wasn't that distant from other places, and it was along a major thoroughfare. There was a Taco Bell where people could pee. There was a gas station where people could pee. There were all sorts of things.
Joseph Fink
#33. Know that she was a good and hardworking intern, and that she died doing what she loved: simultaneously living and dying in infinite, fractal defiance of linear time.
Joseph Fink
#34. In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.
Sheri Fink
#35. People often found themselves assenting to inanimate objects in the Moonlite All-Nite.
Joseph Fink
#36. A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
Sheri Fink
#37. Beyond the window was the parking lot and beyond that the desert, and beyond that the sky, mostly void, partially stars. Layered
Joseph Fink
#38. For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object.
Bruce Fink
#39. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#40. Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!
Sheri Fink
#41. But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change.
Joseph Fink
#42. To be remembered is, I think, a badic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in a desert when it is gone.
Joseph Fink
#43. Of course, angels do not exist. It is illegal to consider their existence, or even to give them a dollar when they forget bus money and start hovering around the Ralphs asking for change.
Joseph Fink
#44. The reading area was a beautifully crafted trap set by the librarians, but it was too perfect. Even the dumbest book lover - and anyone who would regularly choose to come in contact with books could not be a bright bulb, Jackie thought - wouldn't fall for this.
Joseph Fink
#45. Diane turned and pointed in the direction of Evan's cubicle. But instead of a cubicle, there was a fern and an empty chair beneath a framed photo of a cloud. She wasn't sure which cloud it was.
Joseph Fink
#46. when Cecil talked it was possible to let some of that go. To let go of the worries. To let go of the questions. To let go of letting or going.
Joseph Fink
#47. In other news, a recent report suggests that things may not be as they seem.
Joseph Fink
#48. Looking for a snack? Try wheat or a wheat by-product. Dinner? Wheat &/or its by-product. Trying to patch a leaky roof? We have just the thing for you, and we also have its by-product.
Joseph Fink
#49. Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!
Sheri Fink
#50. had felt good to have someone explicitly value something that she did.
Joseph Fink
#51. People who grow older think they are so wise, she thought. Like time means anything at all.
Joseph Fink
#52. It will be difficult to help if you create a Culture of No, Diane.
Joseph Fink
#54. Then you will die, but only for a little while.
Joseph Fink
#55. Sometimes it is easy to forget which things in the world can feel pain and which cannot.
Joseph Fink
#56. If we cannot be judged on our actions, then we cannot be judged.
Joseph Fink
#57. I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.
Laurence D. Fink
#58. Who can fathom the danger and pain of a visit to the City Council?
Joseph Fink
#60. Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
Sheri Fink
#61. Despite the request, and the fact that executives from some Tenet hospitals, like Atlanta, had already expressed a willingness to provide evacuation support, Tenet officials continued to rely on governmental resources to respond to the emergency.
Sheri Fink
#62. People are beautiful when they do beautiful things.
Joseph Fink
#63. I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.
Laurence D. Fink
#64. Diane suddenly felt like the words she was saying were twisting in her mouth and coming out as different words altogether.
Joseph Fink
#65. We understand the lights. We understand the lights above the Arby's. We understand so much. But the sky behind those lights, mostly void, partially stars, that sky reminds us: We don't understand even more.
Joseph Fink
#66. City halls are always huge and ornate and topped with ancient volcanic stone towers.
Joseph Fink
#67. I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.
Laurence D. Fink
#68. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#69. She laughs a little and admits to him, "I've never eaten in the bathtub before." He smiles. "Feels fun and a little scandalous, huh?
Sheri Fink
#70. One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
Laurence D. Fink
#71. When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.
Charlie Fink
#72. In breaking news, the sky. The earth. Life. Existence as an unchanging plain with horizons of birth and death in the faint distance.
Joseph Fink
#73. Because I've been around guys like that my whole life. He will always be a little boy who acts like a dog. Guys don't really change who they are at their core. Even if he wanted to, it would be a completely uphill battle, and he's not man enough for the journey.
Sheri Fink
#74. It didn't matter what he said. The world is terrifying. It always is. But Cecil reminded her that it was ok to relax in a terrifying world.
Joseph Fink
#75. I don't know . . . there's just something about him. You radiate joy and sunshine, and he seems like more of a wet blanket who wants all the attention for himself. Everyone loves you here. I'm just looking out for you," she shares apologetically as she comfortingly cups Julie's hand.
Sheri Fink
#76. Along those lines, to get personal for a moment, I think the best way to die would be swallowed by a giant snake. Going feet first and whole into a slimy maw would give your life perfect symmetry.
Joseph Fink
#77. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.
Tony Shalhoub
#78. I'm sorry that it was this way, Mom. Not sorry like an apology. I'm sorry as in sorrow.
Joseph Fink
#79. see, now, that it was wrong for me to curse your particular blood to a diseased eternity of suffering. In an attempt at magnanimity I extend an apology and retract my sanguinary execration.
Joseph Fink
#80. There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.
Sheri Fink
#82. Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!
Sheri Fink
#83. What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.
Laurence D. Fink
#84. But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.
Sheri Fink
#85. As they stepped outside into the sandy dusk, the bell on the door jingled faintly in Jackie's mind like a favorite song to which she could no longer quite remember the tune.
Joseph Fink
#86. She drove home and grabbed the things she would need to check out a book: strong rope and a grappling hook, a compass, a flare gun, matches and a can of hair spray, a sharpened wooden spear, and, of course, her library card.
Joseph Fink
#87. None of us knows what we want to do when we're his age. When we're your age, when you're my age," said Diane, "any age, I guess. We think we do, and sometimes we're right, but only ever in retrospect." Her
Joseph Fink
#88. The search for truth takes us to dangerous places," said Old Woman Josie. "Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.
Joseph Fink
#89. PROVERB: Eating meat is a difficult moral decision, because it's stolen, that meat. You should apologize.
Joseph Fink
#90. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.
Sheri Fink
#91. Fink, boasted to The Wichita Eagle in 2012, "I think that's actually one of the things that happened at the Obama administration, is that every rock they overturned, they saw people who were against it, and it turned out to be us.
Jane Mayer
#92. It was a fair question, although the problem with fair questions is that they are asked about an unfair world.
Joseph Fink
#93. Imagine a fifteen-year-old boy. Nope. That was not right at all. Try again.
Joseph Fink
#94. Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.
Joseph Fink
#95. Her mother rolled an avocado back and forth on the spotless tabletop. The floor and the tabletop and the walls were all the same clean color, and everything was equally clean and unused. The avocado was, of course, fake, as all avocados were.
Joseph Fink
#96. The differential diagnosis of catatonia According to an old story, there are three different types of baseball umpires. The first says: "I call them lballs and strikes] as they are"; the second says: "I call them as I see them"; and the third says: "What I call them is what they become.
Max Fink
#97. Distance is confusing," the stranger would tell people, anyone who would listen. "So is time.
Joseph Fink
#98. I don't know who I am and I don't understand the progression of time as it relates to me," said Jackie. Leann nodded. "We've all been there.
Joseph Fink
#99. Everyone gets scared at times. It's only the fools who won't admit it.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#100. Kjell Gunnar Beraas/Doctors Without Borders Doctors Without Borders workers at an Ebola treatment center in Guinea in April, shortly after the virus was recognized. By DENISE GRADY and SHERI FINK Patient Zero in the Ebola outbreak, researchers
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