Elif Batuman Quotes

Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

Elif Batuman

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PowerTimeHolidayMagicalCounting

Wind is God's way of balancing heat. Wind is the way you shift heat from areas where it's hotter to areas where it's cooler. That's what wind is.

Joe Barton

GodWindYouWayHeatWhere

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

Jo Brand

ManRebelliousSensitiveVeryDad

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

John Bates Clark

PracticeLawResultWorthQuestion

We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.

Andrew Wiles

MathematicsProblemsLongAttention

Colorado is a state that people like to be themselves and solve their own problems.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleProblemsColoradoOwnLike

A steady diet of the higher truths might prove exhausting, but it's important that we acknowledge their validity and celebrate their survival.

Robert Gottlieb

CelebrateDietSurvivalImportant

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Meshell Ndegeocello

SongThoughtGeniusLandKnowing

I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.

Amy Chozick

YouWallGoSaidWashingtonStreet

I was the child of refugees.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

ChildRefugees

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LiveGodMenSpeakYouSaw

I keep getting asked out by really young, good looking boys and really ugly lesbians. So, even if I wanted to jump onto the tuna boat, I wouldn't because I'm not getting high-class babes that I should get at this level of my career. And I always know the ugly ones are serious and that the good-looking ones are goofing on me.

Lisa Lampanelli

GoodUglyMeLookingBoatCareer

I like hanging out at non-showbizzy places.

Judah Friedlander

PlacesOutHangingLike

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