Quotes About Associations

the mind always has logic; it might not be obvious logic, but the mind has its reasons for connecting two seemingly unlike notions. -Carol Muske, Translations: Idea to Image

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Actually, the full bell curve goes: brilliant; pretty good; mediocre; mediocre and interminable; dire; vile; dire and vile; and dire, vile, and interminable.

out the effects of the former. Do you think I don't understand economics? How many times do I have to

There was now enormous British ambivalence toward Pierpont.

Rockefeller never developed quite the same fond attachment to Owego as to Moravia, but he retained pleasing associations with it.

It was a common practice in all descriptions of freighting, not peculiar to oil; in merchandise, grain, everything.

had larger concerns than most bankers of his day.

Rockefeller didn't issue such glowing testimonials lightly.

said Morgan, who agreed to make up the church's deficits.

Rainsford also credited Pierpont with intense loyalty and forthright honesty:

Oh, she's getting sinister and passee. Perhaps; but only sometimes!

Lox vobiscum, and give my regards to Broadway." His

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to ensure success are the public press and the formation of associations.

griffon vultures, the strong, fearless creatures we called nesher that

I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

The gods hate those who plan badly, and help those with good friends, good swords, and good sense.

A man so slimy he would have found employment as axle grease.

Always the ones quickest to insults got the thinnest skin, for some reason.

The sound of an English accent distracted her and lifted her spirits. She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but she had no real guilt about it. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results.

The cicadas buzzed in Bing's head, like madness.

There are no answers, only cross-references.