Thomas Sowell Quotes

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Thomas Sowell

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• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Small
  • Bitter
  • Africa

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • America
  • History
  • Energy

• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Friend
  • Profession
  • Possession

• Hopefully, there's a place in music for Tinted Windows. If we're really trying to be iconic, we should just stop right now. If one of us could die, that would also help. But I don't think anybody wants that gig.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Help

• My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.

  

  OMI
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Songs

• I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

  

  Edmund White
  • Eyes
  • Happiness
  • Celebrity

• If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

  

  Bill Gates

• I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.

  

  Jason Alexander

• Football is my base; that's where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that's what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.

  

  Christian Kane
  • People
  • Strong
  • Football

• The passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - or stimulus bill, as it is often called - is a perfect example in which dire circumstances necessitate immediate action. But with such large amounts of taxpayer money at stake, a hastily developed, under-thought-out plan could have been disastrous.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Money
  • American
  • Action

• When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• I'm not trying to do anything except entertain America.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Trying
  • America

• You're only one video away from going viral and changing your life.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Life

• House Speaker John Boehner and presumed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell understand the art of politics.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Art
  • House

• It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide.

  

  Marie Kondo
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

  

  James Levine
  • Women
  • Family
  • Friends

• Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape, And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape, The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong, Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue, There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace, Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace, And when accomplish'd in her wayward school, Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • School
  • Fashion

• So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Decision
  • Musician
  • Policy

• The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Great

• Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

  

  Thomas Sowell