Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.

Alex Berenson

Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.

Alex Berenson

Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.

Alex Berenson

Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.

Alex Berenson

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Ann Beattie

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Ann Beattie

I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.

Ann Beattie

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.

Ann Beattie

Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything.

Anna Banks

We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

Anna Banks

You must never stop believing. That’s the most important thing.

Anthony Doerr

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Ariel Gore

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Alice Hamilton

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

Allegra Huston

The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.

Arthur Herzog

Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.

Anthony Lewis

Are you looking for something real in this world of illusions? Call me. Casual Flings need not apply. I am looking for Love.

Aprilynne Pike

I just don't want to cozy up to the guy whose girl I have every intention of stealing.

Aprilynne Pike

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Anne Roiphe

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

Anne Roiphe