Epicene Or The Silent Quotes

#1. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Maynard Jackson

#3. Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

Freddie Prinze Jr.

#4. And yet,
how ordinary life is
without a bit of fancy,
without a pinch of daring
to fill our days.

Caroline Starr Rose

#5. I bit a pillow. Or two.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures.

Boss Tweed

#7. while its in the future it can never be in the present

Colin Urquhart

#8. No one will want a piece of us in 2009.

Charlie Weis

#9. Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what and when over how and why.

Salman Rushdie

#10. It's the silliness
the profligacy, and the silliness
that's so dizzying: a seven-year-old will run downstairs, kiss you hard, and then run back upstairs again, all in less than 30 seconds. It's as urgent an item on their daily agenda as eating or singing. It's like being mugged by Cupid.

Caitlin Moran

#11. You can't accept correction when you are not humble to listen.

Israelmore Ayivor