Rosenbach Library Quotes

#1. As we said, even the best venture investors have a portfolio, but investors who understand the power law make as few investments as possible.

Peter Thiel

#2. I couldn't make myself write serious; I was surrounded by serious: in monographs, in articles, in my own dissertation prospectus, in the very earnest e-mails of students telling me just why that paper couldn't be in on time, cross their hearts and hope to get an A-minus.

Lauren Willig

#3. Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.

Jonathan Knight

#4. America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it.

Elizabeth Warren

#5. Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.

Robert Orben

#6. Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

Deepika Padukone

#7. The meaning of the story is the story.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Frank Zappa

#9. The rooftops of Ankh-Morpork sprouted a fine array of gargoyles even in normal times, but now they were alive with as ghastly an array of faces as ever were seen outside a woodcut about the evils of gin-drinking among the non-woodcut-buying classes.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me ... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Ty Cobb

#11. The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.

Bert Blyleven

#12. Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

Sun Tzu

#13. Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life and all other lives.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Joe Biden