Weevent Quotes

#1. When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.

Mayank Chhaya

#2. An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

Robert Genn

#3. You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.

David Markson

#4. The redwoods are like organ pipes, playing silent chords.

Anne Lamott

#5. Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

#6. I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.

Joel Siegel

#7. This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. I buy books and tell myself that I am buying wisdom and at the end of my life, I own a house full of books.

Ken Chen

#9. After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic.

Vivek Wadhwa

#10. I'm an actor. I was trained by Stella Adler, one of the greatest teachers of the world. I was 19 years old, and she frightened me to death. I was her houseboy for a while.

Mark Margolis

#11. It's unconditional love with your kids.

Frankie Valli

#12. I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#13. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

Jeffrey Kluger