Benignly Neglected Quotes

#1. (Giving your mother-in-law a gift is a good idea, but paying her for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner is not recommended, even if both gestures would cost you the same amount of money.)

Dan Ariely

#2. Develop a good filing system.

Randy Pausch

#3. Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.

Eric Mazur

#4. Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.

Brad Paisley

#5. If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#6. But somewhere, deep within her, she knew that if she opened up to this man, it would be the most dangerous thing she ever did. He made her want to believe that she could share her burdens. When the truth was that she was alone. And she always would be.

Sarah MacLean

#7. Your only stumbling block is the man in the mirror

Thabiso Monkoe

#8. He was ready to stop trying to matter; he was ready to simply live.

Jess Walter

#9. Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work
harder than one might think.

Fredrik Backman

#11. Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

William Styron

#12. We can invent as many theories we like, and any one of them can be made to fit the facts. But that theory is always preferred which makes the fewest number of assumptions.

Albert Einstein

#13. Does it hurt? What is it?"
"It's not food poisoning, it's not a hazard to public health."
"What is it?"
"It's just an ache you've given me. I'll live. But only with you.

Iain S. Thomas

#14. Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.

Charles Schumer