Top 26 Herbert Stein Quotes
#1. Consciousness ("here" and "now") is not
"false and misleading" because of language; consciousness is language, and
nothing else, because it is false and misleading.
Paul De Man
#2. Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.
Herbert Stein
#3. My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then.
Pete Townshend
#6. I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name.
Izabella Scorupco
#7. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'
Jennifer Tilly
#8. There is no room for exclusion in family ... only love.
Wes Fesler
#9. If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop.
Herbert Stein
#10. [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.
Herbert Stein
#11. Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
Herbert Stein
#12. Whatever may be the distribution of uncertainty among economists, the public only gets to hear from those who have certain opinions.
Herbert Stein
#13. Economists are very good at saying that something cannot go on forever, but not so good at saying when it will stop.
Herbert Stein
#14. For almost 50 years polls have shown that a large majority of the public believe that the budget should be balanced, and for all that time they have elected office seekers who would not balance it. The public cares about deficits, but doesn't care much.
Herbert Stein
#15. Neutrals and lukewarms do not make history.
Adolf Hitler
#16. Algorithms are crude. Computers are machines. Data science is trying to make digital sense of an analog world.
Christian Rudder
#17. If they can shut down ABC News and ABC network programming just because they don't agree on something, it makes you wonder
Orrin Hatch
#19. If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.
Herbert Stein
#20. I ran three miles, staggered into the lobby, and took the elevator back to my apartment. No point to overdoing this exercise junk.
Stephanie Plum
Janet Evanovich
#21. I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long ... " His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable."
"And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#22. I always wanted to get out of L.A., but time passes, and you find excuses to stay.
Robin Wright
#23. If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Herbert Stein
#24. The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but
" is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.
Robert A. Heinlein
#26. Especially those of us who use magic on a regular basis, have to work the wards." "So hes basically blocking members of the Authority?" "Hounds use magic every day. Doctors, teachers." "Point taken. Good to know she's safe from evil magic-using teachers.
Devon Monk
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