Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing abo...
EDGAR R. FIEDLER Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations six if one went to Harvard.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).
EDGAR R. FIEDLER The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers; six if one went to Harvard.
EDGAR R. FIEDLER For economist the real world is often a special case.
EDGAR FIEDLER He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
EDGAR FIEDLER The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
EDGAR FIEDLER If you have to forecast, forecast often.
EDGAR FIEDLER Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
EDGAR FIEDLER Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
EDGAR FIEDLER To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more ...
LESLIE FIEDLER Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to,...
LESLIE FIEDLER There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made...
LESLIE FIEDLER Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really be...
LESLIE FIEDLER Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to i...
LESLIE FIEDLER My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
LESLIE FIEDLER What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a be...
LESLIE FIEDLER I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, n...
LESLIE FIEDLER Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are...
LESLIE FIEDLER Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the ...
LESLIE FIEDLER Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
LESLIE FIEDLER At this point I anticipate he'll be out for the season,'' Edwards said of Pennington.
JAY FIEDLER It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and i...
LESLIE FIEDLER I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
LESLIE FIEDLER Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female poi...
LESLIE FIEDLER Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
LESLIE FIEDLER The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it differe...
LESLIE FIEDLER It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert, too.
ARTHUR FIEDLER Fiedler on the Roof.
LESLIE FIEDLER We finally got some off of Shaw. We have struggled against her this year.
DANA FIEDLER Whitney was very much in control out there. She wasn't overpowering, but you have to know that you'r...
DANA FIEDLER Whitney did a good job of mixing things up. We have talked about that (wasting solid pitching perfor...
DANA FIEDLER I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
LESLIE FIEDLER They woke up in the second game. That was the difference between game one and two. They hit the ball...
DANA FIEDLER The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
LESLIE FIEDLER (We) didn't hit the ball today. Whitney pitched well (in the first game), we just couldn't give her ...
DANA FIEDLER We talked about that. We needed to even that out. Getting three definitely helped.
DANA FIEDLER The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not wor...
LESLIE FIEDLER Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
LESLIE FIEDLER We finally hit the ball (during the rally) and were able to score a few runs, but we can't expect to...
DANA FIEDLER She had good movement and we couldn't get on top of her. But we left a lot of runners in scoring pos...
DANA FIEDLER I thought both of our pitchers did a great job. They moved the ball around and kept their hitters of...
DANA FIEDLER Getting runs early continues to be a big part of the game for this team. It takes the pressure off t...
DANA FIEDLER We have been pretty steady on the road as well. This one was a little different because we were in V...
DANA FIEDLER It was nice to see a couple of our players come alive at the plate. We did a good job of hitting ove...
DANA FIEDLER When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King.
LESLIE FIEDLER I figured there'd be a lot of phone calls, a lot of interest and stories. But I'm preparing for just...
JAY FIEDLER With my contract situation and the team moving in a new direction, it was pretty much a done deal.
JAY FIEDLER There were times I thought we were a little bit more conservative than we could have been, especiall...
JAY FIEDLER The position is a test of your patience. You can't relax. You can't ever feel like you're never goin...
JAY FIEDLER There were some games that things weren't working very well, we weren't getting the protections, and...
JAY FIEDLER There were times, sure,
JAY FIEDLER I almost went to the wrong sideline because I'm used to going the other way so many times. It's grea...
JAY FIEDLER I told them we had 98 yards to go, but I didn't know it would take 16 pays to get all of it. We exec...
JAY FIEDLER Chas is doing a great job. For a receiver, you have to get to a point where you aren't thinking so m...
JAY FIEDLER I think I've picked up the offense very well throughout the months of offseason work and the last co...
JAY FIEDLER We felt that [recycling] was getting kind of a negative connotation and people were getting turned o...
KAREN FIEDLER The winners obviously were delighted. So, they're telling their friends and neighbors how they won t...
KAREN FIEDLER I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 ye...
LESLIE FIEDLER Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
EDGAR DEGAS But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thou...
EDGAR WINTER It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in on...
EDGAR DEGAS If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bit...
EDGAR WRIGHT It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
EDGAR SALTUS I think where the criticism of videogames come from is where videogames are just Xeroxes of films, a...
EDGAR WRIGHT For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brillianc...
EDGAR WRIGHT I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and e...
EDGAR WRIGHT I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that...
EDGAR WRIGHT Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you hav...
EDGAR WRIGHT There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulato...
EDGAR WRIGHT The idea of fighting your new girlfriend's ex-lovers, 'Street Fighter' style, is the ult...
EDGAR WRIGHT Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Ca...
EDGAR WRIGHT I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
EDGAR WRIGHT When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very ...
EDGAR WRIGHT Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
EDGAR WRIGHT I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia...
EDGAR WRIGHT I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina...
EDGAR WRIGHT Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in...
EDGAR WRIGHT We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the...
EDGAR WRIGHT If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
EDGAR WRIGHT We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the...
EDGAR WRIGHT When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and fac...
EDGAR WRIGHT Maybe directors who are more interested in realism and naturalism come from cities, where they see t...
EDGAR WRIGHT I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complac...
EDGAR WRIGHT Whenever I'm writing a script, I'm scoring myself by playing the right kind of music.
EDGAR WRIGHT I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Not...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a l...
EDGAR RAMIREZ In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to liv...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama w...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot a...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are ei...
EDGAR RAMIREZ You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
EDGAR RAMIREZ I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different fro...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm definitely interested in exploring human contradictions. Contradictions are what make us hum...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Love is also a very violent thing. Totally violent. Suddenly, you are, like, at this party your frie...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You ge...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
EDGAR RAMIREZ Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or wi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigo...
EDGAR RAMIREZ War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a vi...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. So...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
EDGAR RAMIREZ An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
EDGAR QUINET Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinite...
EDGAR QUINET It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy ...
EDGAR QUINET The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear with...
EDGAR QUINET Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, b...
EDGAR QUINET Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
EDGAR QUINET I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo...
EDGAR MITCHELL We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th...
EDGAR MITCHELL At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ...
EDGAR MITCHELL Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou...
EDGAR MITCHELL My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h...
EDGAR MITCHELL We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som...
EDGAR MITCHELL I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi...
EDGAR MITCHELL I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's ...
EDGAR MITCHELL We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is re...
EDGAR MITCHELL I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and ...
EDGAR MITCHELL I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense ...
EDGAR MEYER I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities.
EDGAR MEYER I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
EDGAR MEYER When I was younger, I had a much better connection between words and music. Somewhere along the way,...
EDGAR MEYER In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
EDGAR MEYER I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
EDGAR GUEST I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
EDGAR GUEST What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and i...
EDGAR DEGAS One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an ...
EDGAR DEGAS Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
EDGAR DEGAS In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
EDGAR DEGAS No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the gre...
EDGAR DEGAS For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and u...
EDGAR CAYCE You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to...
EDGAR CAYCE It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
EDGAR CAYCE Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
EDGAR CAYCE There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
EDGAR CAYCE I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
EDGAR BERGEN Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
EDGAR BERGEN So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for...
EDGAR BERGEN OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
EDGAR BERGEN But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
EDGAR BERGEN After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a touri...
EDGAR BERGEN I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
EDGAR BERGEN Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
EDGAR BERGEN You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
EDGAR BERGEN Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or ...
EDGAR BERGEN Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
EDGAR BERGEN No organization is stronger than the quality of its leadership, or ever extends its constituency far...
EDGAR POWELL There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at d...
EDGAR WINTER I long for the slightest evidence of it that doesn’t require me to relinquish reason, because a na...
EDGAR CANTERO The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.
EDGAR SHOAFF It's interesting that some people reading the comics see Scott Pilgrim as a blank slate in that ...
EDGAR WRIGHT Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
EDGAR ARGO Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
EDGAR QUINET There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intellig...
EDGAR DEGAS Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
EDGAR CAYCE At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
EDGAR FAWCETT Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
EDGAR QUINET Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
EDGAR DEGAS What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and i...
EDGAR DEGAS When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
EDGAR CAYCE This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i...
EDGAR CAYCE In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numb...
EDGAR CAYCE I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatu...
EDGAR QUINET What we share with another ceases to be our own.
EDGAR QUINET Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Ill...
EDGAR QUINET You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to som...
EDGAR CAYCE For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much -- if he lives and ...
EDGAR CAYCE It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little spl...
EDGAR CAYCE A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
EDGAR SALTUS One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want cens...
EDGAR DALE Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.
EDGAR DEGAS Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things
EDGAR DEGAS What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, be...
EDGAR QUINET Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
EDGAR BERGEN I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I ...
JIM EDGAR In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality,...
EDGAR WRIGHT Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial...
EDGAR MITCHELL You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with t...
EDGAR MITCHELL Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
EDGAR DEGAS For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I think The Doors are one of the classic groups, and I think we're all tempted to feel like the ...
EDGAR WINTER Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
EDGAR WINTER Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on...
EDGAR MEYER Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed...
EDGAR WRIGHT My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eas...
EDGAR WRIGHT One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these gre...
EDGAR RAMIREZ What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle ...
EDGAR WRIGHT It really was a tale of two halves. We changed ourselves up tactically changed our shape on the fiel...
ASHLEY EDGAR