Bad Matchmaker Quotes

#1. Almost every writer I know dreads the moment when someone tries to give you an idea. It's not that the ideas are bad, just that the relationship between writer and novel is so personal that it's a little like someone trying to play matchmaker for a happily married person.

Laura Lippman

#2. Easy things are worthless ... It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for ... If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?

Andrea Cremer

#3. Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Yochai Benkler

#4. A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

Joseph Conrad

#6. He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?

Eva Heller

#7. We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

Estelle Freedman

#8. Competition makes us better; it brings out the best, strongest parts of us.

Veronica Roth