Cecil Baldwin Quotes

#1. The first
sign of greatness is when a man does not attempt to look and act
great. Before you can call yourself a man at all, Kipling assures
us, you must not look too good nor talk too wise.

Dale Carnegie

#2. He's the man equivalent of a gun to the head, except without the fear for my life aspect.

Penny Reid

#3. With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

Ken Baumann

#4. There is no answer to Auschwitz ... To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#5. The present tense of regret is indecision.

Cecil Baldwin

#6. Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. This is what love is.

Cecil Baldwin

#7. There's a monster at the end of this book. It's the blank page where the story ends and you're left alone with yourself and your thoughts.

Cecil Baldwin

#8. Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect- no, even better- he is imperfect. Everything about him, and us, and all of this is imperfect. And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our outsized love can seep and pool.

Cecil Baldwin

#9. Close your cowardly lips over that void in your head where your brains went missing and keep them there. Then put your lazy, shapeless ass back into your chair and do it swiftly. Or face me in the juris macto.

Jim Butcher

#10. Remember: if you see something, say nothing, and drink to forget.

Cecil Baldwin

#11. The boy is of an outspoken disposition, and had made an opprobrious remark respecting my personal appearance."
"What did he say about your appearance?"
"I have forgotten, sir," said Jeeves, with a touch of austerity. "But it was opprobrious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

Conan O'Brien

#13. I don't mind being called a weirdo.

Nicki Minaj

#14. I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

John Fogerty

#15. And now a brief public service announcement. Alligators: can they kill your children? Yes.

Cecil Baldwin

#16. It's nice to have a station pet. Wish it wasn't trapped in a hovering prison in the men's bathroom, but listen: no pet is perfect. It becomes perfect when you learn to accept it for what it is.

Cecil Baldwin