Burton Malkiel Quotes

It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

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• The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Character
  • Way
  • Her

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Bed
  • Truck
  • Farm

• If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Universe
  • Anything
  • Stand

• During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Water
  • First
  • Existence

• I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Like
  • Confidence
  • Cocky

• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • House
  • Library
  • Intellect

• Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Deep
  • Animal

• God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Heart
  • Christian

• Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

  

  Ellis Peters
  • May
  • Pleasure
  • Saint

• Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.

  

  Robert Frost
  • May
  • Dark
  • Mood

• Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Rest

• Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Die
  • Forever

• Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Opinion
  • Religion
  • Ghosts

• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  

  Confucius
  • Know
  • Meaning
  • True Knowledge

• I like creating these moments where there's this dichotomy between something that repels you but is still so attractive that you can't stop looking. You still want to acquire it; there's still that level of aspiration for the image of the figure or the person you're looking at. when you look at the work there's this, "Oh it's really beautifully rendered!" or, "I love those beautiful tones." There's some aspect that's really attractive but the image itself could be slightly distributing.

  

  Wardell Milan
  • Beautiful
  • Moments
  • Attractive

• It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus.

  

  Burton Malkiel
  • Belief
  • Santa Claus