Sakowitz Furs Quotes

#1. Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself
it is the occurring which is difficult.

Stephen Leacock

#2. The discipline of medicine concerns the manipulation of knowledge under uncertainty.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Samantha Bond

#4. There's no point in asking why, even though everybody will. I know why. The harder question is "why not?" I can't believe she ran out of answers before I did.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5.
False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul!

Juan Ramon Jimenez

#6. I'd better be a poet
Or lay down dead.

Jack Kerouac

#7. The statistics John Wesson has compiled in The Science of Soccer show that Premiership football players are vastly more likely to have been born in the first half of the school year. These were the biggest boys in the class and were thus selected for the school team. How fair is that?

Daniel Finkelstein

#8. While waiting for promised blessings, one should not mark time, for to fail to move forward is to some degree a retrogression. Be anxiously engaged in good causes, including your own development.

Howard W. Hunter

#9. Do not be deceived, what you sow is what you are going to reap.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

Lisa Yuskavage

#12. The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

Tom Peters

#13. And while it sounds bad to hear that Americans underpay their taxes by nearly one-fifth, the tax economist Joel Slemrod estimates that the U.S. is easily within the upper tier of worldwide compliance rates.

Steven D. Levitt

#14. An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

George Eliot

#15. Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

William Shakespeare