Expected Token Quotes

#1. Our inability to talk about the past was almost as damaging to our relationship as the past itself.

Leigh Byrne

#2. To be quite honest, I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

Scott Bakula

#3. Well, that's a hell of a reason to poison yourself.

David Sedaris

#4. Writing barely differs from Talking and Reading. It appoints your hand while they engage your mouth and eyes respectively. The trio need the mind to combine sensible words from a meaningful arrangement of the 'simple' A B C to Z.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#5. I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Eighty percent of American managers cannot answer with any measure of confidence these seemingly simple questions: What is my job? What in it really counts? How well am I doing?

W. Edwards Deming

#7. On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

Jonathan Kozol

#8. I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

Dean Koontz

#9. Poetry is not mainstream, but then neither is serious fiction, really. But I don't think there's a lot to worry about in this particular 'problem'. Why does art have to be mainstream to be significant?

Jonathan Galassi

#10. The facts shouldn't get in the way of a pleasant fantasy.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

#11. But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

Sophocles

#12. Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#13. God guarantees success to every Christian provided they are obedient to Him.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.

Ambrose Burnside