Closing Line Quotes

#1. I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Joseph Heller

#2. To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Mark Twain

#3. Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.

Poppet

#4. I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Jaron Lanier

#5. The thing is, not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

#6. One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

Jack Woodford

#7. The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.

Keith Henson

#9. If Math was a woman, we'd be married already.

Mark Gonzales

#10. I bid you peace - said at the end of every TV episode of The Frugal Gourmet

Jeff Smith

#11. I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust within the rock.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.

Simon Sinek

#13. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.

Cody McFadyen

#14. To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

Michael Jordan

#15. It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Alexander Pushkin

#16. Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.

Jacob M. Braude

#17. The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

Frank Zappa