Laura Winslow Quotes

#1. It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

Charles Baudelaire

#2. If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. I like a woman with meat on her bones."
She laughed. "My hips express their deepest appreciation, Major Winslow.

Laura Taylor

#4. Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

Paul Ormerod

#5. Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time.

Katie Kacvinsky

#6. Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Luc Sante

#7. Millions of years ago, the first lizard crawled out of the water and hit the second lizard over the head with a rock. Thus, the first serial killer was born.

Dexter

#8. Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.

Chinua Achebe

#9. So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

John Milton

#10. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.

Leon Joseph Suenens