Top 11 Excerpted Quotes
#1. Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted and reworked fragments, the missing elements of our personality.
Pierre Bayard
#2. We've supported the U.S. every step of the way. The Philippines was the first government in Asia after September 11, in fact, the night of September 11; it was nighttime for us then. It was daytime here. We were the first government in Asia to come out and say that we're supporting the U.S.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#3. I will take a little bit of credit because I did come up with 'you're welcome.'
Molly Tarlov
#4. It can't be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you're around them. That's probably one of the best reasons you could have.
Courtney Summers
#5. O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts. Possess them not with fear.
William Shakespeare
#7. Gentlemen, this is a story that you shall tell your grandchildren, and mightily bored they'll be.
Lt General Brian Horrocks
#8. A good quant must be a mixture, too - part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.
Emanuel Derman
#9. You won't see me taking it easy on the Cowboys because I'm from Texas, you won't see me cheering for the Cowboys because I'm from Texas. I'll be a Redskin, through and through.
Robert Griffin III
#10. The photograph ... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.
Robert Heinecken
#11. David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitoland reminds us that sometimes imperfect is just perfect.
Ruta Sepetys