William Hooper Quotes

#1. Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Lucille Ball

#2. In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

James Surowiecki

#3. I love him. I don't know what kind of love it is, and I don't know if he loves me back. Even if he does, I don't know if he'll want to stay married." Will's throat aches. "Or if I do." Owen

Leta Blake

#4. I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

William Hooper

#5. I never see myself as writing satire. I think I write about people as they really are, without making them better or worse.

Kate Christensen

#6. There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin

Christopher Morley