Trodden Def Quotes

#1. FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

Andrew VanWyngarden

#2. Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

John Hawley

#4. I was on the computer the other day and typed my name into Google. Everything on there was bad. I hope in a few years there might be something there about me playing football.

Jake Friend

#5. If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

Bruce Sterling

#6. The rich nations of the world are acting like ancient usurers, lending money to the desperate poor on terms that cannot possibly be met and, thus, steadily acquiring more and more control over the lives and assets of the poor.

William Greider

#7. Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted hazelnuts, chopped ham hock meat, and other taste treats.

Tom Douglas

#8. I think of him now, ragged and lost, staggering across a desert, the path behind him littered with all the shiny little pieces that life has ripped from him.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Martin Amis

#10. Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.

Vittorio Alfieri

#11. If you venture to be a sage
Let your virtues subside your rage
For deep wisdom you'll be venerated
Let cold veins feel blood cells generated

Munia Khan

#12. Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

T. Boone Pickens

#13. Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Suzanne Vega

#14. Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.

Theocritus

#15. I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Tom Colicchio