Quotes about "Personal Finance & Financial Independence"

My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach' or Ender from 'Ender's Game.' They were just ordinary people who were living under various amounts of struggle, and just to follow their journeys and see them break out of that and live extraordinary lives - I think that gave me a lot of hope as a kid. ”

It's just very dull. Talking about yourself and about something that you've got less interest in than you had, because you've always moved on to something else. ”

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you. ”

We now live in a world where the only thing to have is success, but failure is marvelous. It's fertiliser, it's like living fertiliser, because you're forced on yourself. ”

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months. ”

For many writers, the endless performance of being a writer - tweeting, appearing, making the rounds - is required simply to attract enough attention to make a living. ”

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons. ”

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in. ”

In any case, fighting will not settle whether the claims were just or unjust. It will only settle which nation can mobilize and handle its fighting forces and its economic forces the better. ”

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. ”