Robert Axelrod Quotes

#1. I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing.

John Niven

#2. Embrace the glory of age.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

Rihanna

#4. Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

Leonard Cohen

#5. My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.

Damien Hirst

#6. Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.

Glenn Greenwald

#7. Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.

Stevie Wonder

#8. But, you're just a girl!" Ben said, his eyes widening with suprise and indignation.

The green eyes glanced downwards and before he could move, Ben felt a sharp point pricking at his throat.

"No, not just a girl..." the thief answered softly, "a girl with a knife!

Richard Denning

#9. Listen up. You're in trouble. Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena. The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem

Suzanne Collins

#10. Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.

Hakuin Ekaku

#11. I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Haruki Murakami

#12. This garden is no metaphor - more a task that swallows you into itself, earth using, as always, everything it can.

Jane Hirshfield

#13. When one begins to really feel into the spiritual dimension of their beings, they bump into love. They bump into compassion. They bump into beauty.

Michael Beckwith

#14. Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player's success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.

Robert Axelrod

#15. You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

Jamie Fellner