Offenes Mrt Quotes

#1. The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Jack Vance

#2. Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

Annalee Newitz

#3. The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.

Graham Greene

#4. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

#5. I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children or, I don't know, The Nanny ... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story.

Peter Krause

#6. Young would-be novelists and poets believe that art is eternal. Au contraire: we are in the business of ephemera, the era of floating islands of trash, and most of the things we feel deeply and inscribe on the page will disappear.

Julie Schumacher

#7. She took the sea with her
Not beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls.

Caroline Davies

#8. The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

Adam Haslett

#9. When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Laurie Helgoe

#10. Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

George S. Clason

#11. The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

Ogden Nash

#12. She should have kept running too but she beelined for home instead. Can you believe it? Like everybody in this damn story, she underestimated the depth of the shit she was in.

Junot Diaz

#13. Maybe all dimensions are right here and now. We just can't see them because we limit ourselves to three while incarnate.

C.R. Strahan