“Jailil: Ah yes. Of course. Well then, without further ado…”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
“Well — yes. In modern times, of course.”
Answer to a student at Rochester University who asked whether the bomb exploded at Alamogordo was the first one to be detonated, as quoted in Doomsday, 1999 A.D. (1982) by Charles Berlitz, p. 129
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Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) United States writer
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“Every time I embarked on a new course, there were well-meaning people… who advised against it.”
Eric R. Kandel (1929) American neuropsychiatrist
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: I have at times felt alone, uncertain, without a well-trodden path to follow. Every time I embarked on a new course, there were well-meaning people... who advised against it. I had to learn early on to be comfortable with insecurity and to trust my own judgement on key issues.
“... much of what is taught in modern corporate finance courses is twaddle.”
Charlie Munger (1924) American business magnate, lawyer, investor, and philanthropist
Source: 1996 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, YouTube video with quote at 2:41:46 of 4:54:01 in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YptOBQTb14
“Yes, of course we were pretentious -- what else is youth for?”
Julian Barnes book The Sense of an Ending
Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Yes, of course you want every shot to be a duck-bird [a dead bird? ]”
Johannes Warnardus Bilders (1811–1890) painter from the Northern Netherlands
version in original Dutch: Ja ja, gij zoudt wel willen dat ieder schot een eendvogel was. (wanneer een schilderij niet bevredigend eindigde)<br>Quoted by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in her letter to A.C. Loffelt, 23 June 1895; from an excerpt of this letter https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/763 in RKD-Archive, The Hague<br>his comment, when a painting was not good, at the end <br class="br">posthumous quotes
“Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.
Ye Ales, of a good begynnyng comth a good end.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Well aunt, said Ales, all is well that ends well.
Yes Ales, of a good beginning comes a good end.
Part I, chapter 10.
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