Eats Shoots Leaves Quotes

#1. In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped through life, unaware of all the atrocities lurking in the world around them.

Lynne Truss

#2. (by researching, talking to people, etc.), and see which area not only fits well but also could pay off.

Kate White

#3. In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.

Bethany Brookbank

#4. Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Clark Gable

#5. I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.

Albert Einstein

#6. I find politicians globally are somewhat disappointing, not just in Ireland.

Martin Naughton

#7. There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Jesse Ventura

#8. Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.

Lynne Truss

#9. I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

Larry Niven

#10. And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

Dorothea Benton Frank

#11. Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.

John Golden

#12. If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.

Robert Lowell

#13. Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And tune his merry note,
Unto the sweet bird's throat;
Come hither, come hither, come hither.
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.

William Shakespeare

#14. My wife gives good headache.

Rodney Dangerfield