Eats Shoots Quotes

#1. 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

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

John Golden

#3. 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

#4. Without death and decay, how could life go on?

John Burroughs

#5. What you call idiot points, I call awesome dollars. ~Seth

Brandon Mull

#6. If I were a serial killer, I would not be the kind that stabs and then eats the victim. I would be the kind that hides in a tree and shoots at the aerobics class.

Augusten Burroughs

#7. Rest and be thankful.

William Wordsworth

#8. The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

F. Sionil Jose

#9. Sickness and sin still stalk our planet. But here is the difference: neither sin nor sickness will have dominion over God's people.

Max Lucado

#10. Effectiveness lies in the balance - what I call the P/PC Balance. P stands for production of desired results, the golden eggs. PC stands for production capability, the ability or asset that produces the golden eggs.

Stephen R. Covey

#11. I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?

Walter Annenberg

#12. How hard is it, when what lies in the balance is something you love, to admit you're wrong?

Kristen Ashley

#13. Everyone is beautiful ... it just takes the right person to see it

Singh Amendra

#14. 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

#15. 'What would Jesus do?' or 'What would He have me do?' are the paramount personal questions of this life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. I keep lists of names of people that I have met, a list of things to do day by day as well as a log of how my time is consumed throughout the day. It's a very important part of my personal discipline.

Bob Graham

#17. And, though reading may not at first blush seem like an act of creation, in a deep sense it is. Without the enthusiastic reader, who is really the author's counterpart and very often his most secret rival, a book would die.

Henry Miller

#18. To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Earl Nightingale

#19. the thing is, life is nothing like the movies...Somewhere between the two of us, something broke and we couldn't fix it. We tried. we only ended up hurting each other more

Vince O. Teves