Just Another Number Author Quotes

#1. I began to walk. Not back to my room, but out, instead, out into Dream London. The stars were so heavy that the purple sky bulged in the middle, sagging down to pierce itself on the city spires.

Tony Ballantyne

#2. Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.

Seth Klarman

#3. Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. The sun don't shine in your TV!

Daniel Johnston

#5. There's gotta be more to life than chasing down every temporary high to satisfy me.

Stacie Orrico

#6. I am done looking for love where it doesn't exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Maggie Young

#7. Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

Jean Rostand

#8. I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

George Lucas

#9. You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.

Veronica Roth

#10. I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.

Joe Piscopo

#12. I would argue that play is an essential part of living. It's the process by which great discoveries are made, industries are built, and people fall in love. The instinctive human drive toward play continuously pushes us to find new ways to understand and influence the world around us.

John Ferrara

#13. Your true passion in life is what you'd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Maggie Young

#14. Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

Marcus Brigstocke

#15. Perfection is, after all, a form of banality.

Elisa Braden

#16. State and local law enforcement agencies were granted the authority to keep, for their own use, the vast majority of cash and assets they seize when waging the drug war.

Michelle Alexander

#17. Just Another Number was meant to be unresolved because resolving it would destroy its authenticity. It's a memoir. I am unresolved as a human being. And it also leaves room for a sequel.

Maggie Young

#18. I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.

Meryl Davis