Manhattan Transfer Quotes

#1. The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.

Francois Arago

#2. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

#3. Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. Land is a nation's basis for existence. The nation has its roots like those of a tree deep in the country's soil whence it derives its nourishment and life. There is no people that can live without land, as there is no tree which can live hanging in air.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#5. I know it sounds silly, but disrespecting a dead writer by sitting in a chair that probably never belonged to him still felt like a risk to me. So I chickened out.

John D'Agata

#6. Dunn's Law:

Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.

Arthur Bloch

#7. Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.

Roy Clarke

#8. I love working with the young.

Peter O'Toole

#9. If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Rainbow Rowell

#10. But you're out of another world old kid ... You ought to live on top of the Woolworth Building in an apartment made of cutglass and cherry blossoms.

John Dos Passos