Friedman Agency Quotes

#1. In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.

Gene Luen Yang

#2. When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

#3. You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.

Marjane Satrapi

#4. I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

Ted Stevens

#5. Pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you will have an acronym designating a federal agency we can do without.

Milton Friedman

#6. How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from using oil to using natural gas? How in God's name did we make that transition without a Federal Energy Agency?

Milton Friedman

#7. Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

Calista Flockhart

#8. Directing 'The Office' is kind of like someone going, 'Would you like to drive my Lamborghini?' And I'm like 'Yes, I would like to drive your Lamborghini. That sounds like fun.'

Jason Reitman

#9. Could it be - no one receives the peace of God without giving thanks to God? Is thankfulness really but the deep, contented breath of peacefulness? Is this why God asks us to give thanks even when things look a failure? When there doesn't seem much to give thanks for?

Ann Voskamp

#10. Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.

Michael Bassey

#11. The chair legs behind me scrape against the floor, and Douchecanoe shrinks in his seat as over six hundred pounds of angry hockey players stare down at him. Fitzy is particularly menacing with his two full-sleeve tattoos and the cut over his eyebrow that he got during our last game.

Elle Kennedy

#12. We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

Saul Griffith

#13. An Iranian foundation offered the earthly reward of $3 million.

Nick Cohen

#14. Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

Bill Bowerman

#15. That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's Latin liturgy. So say the lexicologists.

L. M. Boyd

#16. Knowing what a person believes on a certain subject is not identical to knowing how that person thinks.

Sam Harris