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Vernon L. Smith Quotes

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Vernon L. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 1, 1927

Topics

City First Academic Well Except

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

Jim Henson

Black And White Black Doing Remember

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

Jo Nesbo

You Down Play Ladder Director Get

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

John Burroughs

History Feeling Museum Go Without

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

John Irving

Book Think You Sometimes Kind Where

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Robert Harris

Happiness Day Growing Up You Growing

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Amar Bose

Business Time Boston Gone Going MIT

Under no circumstances am I going to criticize my family in public.

Tucker Carlson

Family Circumstances Going Criticize

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network.

Toni Morrison

Money People Rich Take For Granted

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

Ruth Warrick

Birthday Good Fun People Surprise

I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

Rose McGowan

Lie Face Down Know Get Court

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Training Gym Go Personal Yoga

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

Life Live Feel Political My Life