Victory Venkatesh Quotes

#1. He threw his back out, which-- fair enough, I'd imagine my back would be a bit sore if I'd spent the last twenty years of my life with my head up my own ass.

Jack Whitehall

#2. Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. Solvitur ambulando ... it is solved by walking.

Saint Augustine

#4. The [true] intellectual is he who does not let harm done to others and nor let any harm done to even one's own self.

Dada Bhagwan

#5. Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.

Susan Sontag

#6. We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#7. In order to judge a man, one must first observe him more closely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. Since 1890, the Tour d'Argent's basic recipe hasn't changed. If you find yourself at the restaurant tomorrow, you will eat duck in the confidence that it was what someone ate a hundred years ago. You will eat it in the expectation that someone else will be served it a hundred years from now.

Bill Buford

#9. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Trip Hawkins

#10. I'm very, very happy with my recognition/lack of recognition in England in terms of my life. In terms of household name-age. The public's memory is very short, luckily.

Rufus Sewell

#11. Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

J.C. Ryle