Gillian Tett Quotes

#1. Well, now that I have a baby, I'm that person who's looking for all the parks. I'm also the person who lost their coat because I was juggling so many items. So I'm that person: I lost my coat, I lost my scarf, and it's cold now.

Jenna Fischer

#2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

John Lennon

#3. When I need things to happen, I need them to happen now, you know. I don't want to be having a meeting about a meeting about a meeting, which is what can happen in Britain.

Estelle

#4. The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.

Norman Cousins

#5. A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.

Larry David

#6. Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Joanna Russ

#7. There's nothing better than a good, blind referee.

Bobby Heenan

#8. I think socialism is really about recognizing that there are limits to what the market can do. The market is very useful; at times it works very well, but it doesn't always work.

Gillian Tett

#9. Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#11. The best movies now are called 'thrillers.' Because if you use the word 'horror,' people's associations are straight-to-video crap.

Eli Roth

#12. Fifth grade is the beginning of the logic stage. We treat it as a transition year between elementary and middle school expectations.

Jenny Harrington

#13. I am not afraid," he said to himself.

Garth Nix

#14. All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

David Foster Wallace

#15. The great rebalancing
what does recovery mean today?

Gillian Tett

#16. There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

P.D. Ouspensky

#17. In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Elie Wiesel

#18. the word "silo" does not just refer to a physical structure or organization (such as a department). It can also be a state of mind. Silos exist in structures. But they exist in our minds and social groups too. Silos breed tribalism. But they can also go hand in hand with tunnel vision.

Gillian Tett