Nonmonetary Exchange Quotes

#1. When you examine the genesis of great works of art, successful start-ups, and revolutionary shifts in politics, you can always trace back a history of monetary and nonmonetary exchange, the hidden patrons and underlying favors.

Amanda Palmer

#2. You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

A.S. Byatt

#3. If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

A. N. Wilson

#4. Fear is a constant, and faith is a choice. Fear comes from karma, from faith arises dharma.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#5. Ask the questions. Do not just accept anything without question.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Joan Baez

#7. Don't go to the wraithland," he said. "It's too dangerous."
I smirked. "Why, Black Knife. You almost sound worried."
...
"It's not your responsibility... It should be a worldwide effort, not just the effort of one girl pretending to be a boy.

Jodi Meadows

#8. A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Ouida

#9. When fun is forbidden, it is all the more treasured.

Laura Fitzgerald

#10. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

Duncan Fletcher

#11. Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you.
-Raphael

Nalini Singh

#12. I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#13. The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else ... no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden.

C.S. Lewis

#14. The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Danielle LaPorte

#15. What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

Caryl Churchill