William H. Gass Quotes

Getting even is one reason for writing.

William H. Gass

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WritingReasonEvenGetting

Dogs are a really amazing eye opener for us humans because their lives are compressed into such a short period, so we can see them go from puppyhood to adolescence to strong adulthood and then into their sunset years in 10 to 12 years. It really drives home the point of how finite all our lives are.

John Grogan

HomeSunsetAmazingEyeStrongGo

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.

John Desmond Bernal

ResearchIndependenceLossDoneTwo

I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WorkMeFinancialEconomicGoing

The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.

Robert B. Laughlin

LifeNatureWordsPeopleQuestions

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

Ron Williams

ThreeForgettingCapableYearsEvery

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

Ronald Coase

LawWillPropertySomethingMarket

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Russell Baker

ManPovertyBornWayPoorClassic

I cannot imagine what it must feel like to be treated differently because of the color of my skin.

Mike Gallagher

ColorFeelSkinImagineMustCannot

By living so long, the supercentenarian earns the prefixal 'super' and becomes a person suddenly freighted with power and meaning. He's Gandalf, Yoda, the Ancient Mariner, perhaps with some otherworldly insight. He's lived so long that, in fact, he's living the afterlife to his own initial life.

Michael Paterniti

LifePowerMeaningLongLivingOwn

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

MeWritingCalmVoiceCriticismWay

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Jean de la Bruyere

ManKingAtheistWouldWhoWere

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.

Alicia Keys

HeartSufferingWorldLovingKind

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