Bossypants Quotes

#1. Bossypants Lesson #183: You Can't Boss People Around If They Don't Really Care

Tina Fey

#2. I absolutely loved Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and didn't want it to end. It's hilarious as well as important. Not only did I laugh on every page, but I was nodding along, highlighting and dog-earing like crazy.

Sheryl Sandberg

#3. Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Lawrence Lessig

#4. You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you.

Russell Freedman

#5. Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

Malidoma Patrice Some

#6. What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Robert Ludlum

#7. The law of sympathy is one of the most basic parts of magic. It states that the more similar two objects are, the greater the sympathetic link. The greater the link, the more easily they influence each other.

Patrick Rothfuss

#8. A lost men is not direction based but self-seeking outside God

Evans Biya

#9. Earthquakes were extremely uncommon in this area. A dragon and a unicorn playing tag wasn't.

Robert Asprin

#10. May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers.

Tina Fey

#11. [G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Amit Chaudhuri

#12. I feel about Photoshop the way some people feel about abortion. It is appalling and a tragic reflection on the moral decay of our society ... unless I need it, in which case, everybody be cool.

Tina Fey

#13. Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does.

Tina Fey

#14. Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison. I struggled no more, but the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long, and final scream of despair. I felt that I tottered upon the brink
I averted my eyes

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. That night's show was watched by ten million people, so I guess that director at The Second City who said the audience "didn't want to see a sketch with two women" can go shit in his hat.

Tina Fey

#17. Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Tina Fey

#18. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

Jaha Knight

#19. You arrive at Formula One being very skeptical, how far can your talent deal with all this, and then you understand those guys are human and pretty reasonable, and finally succeeding in winning your first race, in circumstance as such, it was just an amazing moment.

Michael Schumacher

#20. It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don't like something, it is empirically not good. I don't like Chinese food, but I don't write articles trying to prove it doesn't exist.

Tina Fey

#21. I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!

Tina Fey

#22. The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be reliably predicted. Consciousness interacts with vast archetypal fields of possibility and probability. What actually happens is the result of the collision of both forces.

Steven Forrest