Bythell Diary Quotes

#1. I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez told us: that while we were in these posts, we must be clothed in humility and understand that we are here to protect the man and woman of the streets.

Nicolas Maduro

#2. To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Giles Foden

#3. You have been imprinted by people in this world who take power from others. Most people drain each other. Or, what is worse, they are draining you right now, psychically!

Frederick Lenz

#4. I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading.

Kara Swisher

#5. Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.

Marjorie M. Liu

#6. She wonders what else she will have to give up and what is the minimum of things with which one can survive without losing the feeling that one is human?

Slavenka Drakulic

#7. Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the professions and use their virtues against them to bring about their destruction.

Florence King

#8. If he doesn't give you the same feelings you get when the pizza guy arrives, he's probably not worth it.

Michael Clifford

#9. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary - because it makes you so much more human.

Anonymous

#10. The great mystery of life is the length of it.

Venita VanCaspel

#11. The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.

Joshua Cohen

#12. Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Jill Lepore

#13. If you can't be bothered to work on Saturday, don't bother to come in on Sunday.

Jay Chiat

#14. I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#15. Newman and I were friends. We were great teammates, and he needs to check his trophy case on that Daytona 500 trophy I helped him get years ago.

Kurt Busch