Wildavsky Aaron Quotes

#1. That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.

Joe Royle

#2. I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

Lana Del Rey

#3. The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

Aaron Wildavsky

#4. I wanted more than anything to be something I will never be - feminine, and feminine in the worst way. Submissive. Dependent. Soft spoken. Coquettish. I was no good at all at any of it, no good at being a girl; on the other hand, I am not half bad at being a woman.

Nora Ephron

#5. The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.

Aaron Wildavsky

#6. As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

Mariella Frostrup

#7. Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of 'the deepest contemplation of life in all its conditionality

Mikhail Bulgakov

#8. [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.

Annie Dillard