Alex Steffen Quotes

More is not better. Better is better. You don't need a bigger house; you need a different floor plan. You don't need more stuff; you need stuff you'll actually use.

Alex Steffen

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BetterPlanYouHouseMoreNeed

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

Megan Hilty

LoveFrench FriesSaltySuckerFries

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

John Locke

KnowledgeMindReadingThinkingOnly

The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

Stephen Graham Jones

HumorControlDramaHorrorWayOut

A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don't snicker: Would you ever say, 'Nothing has gone wrong yet' without looking for wood to knock?

Steven Pinker

ChangePrayerChange The WorldPeople

Canadians are so easily wounded.

Tucker Carlson

WoundedCanadiansEasily

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

GreatDepressionGovernmentEconomy

For my 50th birthday, my cousin Helmut gave me the most profound, beautiful, and striking present. He made books out of my dad's slide photographs, which were stored and forgotten. Looking at those books made me cry.

Juergen Teller

BirthdayBeautifulMeLookingCry

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

Jonathan Frid

BestTheatreDoneLivingRightRoom

May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.

Don DeLillo

ActionPlanDaysMayAdvance

If you're earning equal pay to a man, you get respect. It shouldn't be that way, but it is.

Diana Rigg

RespectManYouWayEqual PayPay

The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.

Diane Setterfield

YourselfLosingMeBookBodyBecome

I don't know anyone who hasn't woken up one morning, one day in their life and wish they were someone else, or wish they could do something or wish they were capable of something.

Dichen Lachman

LifeMorningDaySomeoneWishKnow

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