There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature ... and the thing which pleases us.
— Blaise Pascal
Your name is Shortcut?" "Yep."
"Can you give us a real name for our records?"
"Mr. Shortcut. — Michael La Ronn
Practical investors usually learn their problem is finding enough outstanding investments, rather than choosing among too many. — Philip Arthur Fisher
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. — Rachel Cusk
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. — Grace Paley
One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit. — Sam Altman
I can't fight pirates without coffee. — James S.A. Corey
The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle.
Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I never won an Oscar ... and the Oscars never won Irene Papas — Irene Papas
