Decelles 2004 Quotes

#1. The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learned not only to read books, but also to love them.

Stephanie Grace Whitson

#2. A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

Bill Maher

#3. Those that would attain wisdom,
prefer the empty stadium.
Those who wish to appear wise,
prefer it full.

Tom Althouse

#4. On her daughter: And she's going through all these changes. You know, it's just crazy times.

Pink

#5. Marry, this is miching mal hecho. It means mischief!

William Shakespeare

#6. I've learned to start from a really sound argument, boil down the essence of what you're trying to say, then build your humor around that, rather than starting with, 'This sounds funny,' and going from there.

Hasan Minhaj

#7. Because if I kiss you, then I'll want to taste you, and if I taste you then I'll need to fuck you. And if I fuck you, that means your mine. And when I make you mine, I want it to be in OUR bed. Not in a hotel room ... Is that okay?

Jay McLean

#8. I just try to find targets I feel something about and express it my way.

George Carlin

#9. There was a time when academia was society's refuge for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical. No longer. It is now the domain of professional self-marketers. As for the eccentric, brilliant, and impractical: it would seem society now has no place for them at all.

David Graeber

#10. Much of what Germany and France have done in the rescue of Greece has also helped German and French banks, who for a long time were major creditors for Greece and Greek banks.

Mario Monti

#11. No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Peter Drucker

#12. Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Denise Mina

#13. Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem.

David Blunkett

#14. A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Carol Mann

#15. When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

Liane Moriarty