Expository Essay Quotes

#1. God favors drunks, small children, and the cataclysmically stoned ...

Stephen King

#2. I'd hate to feel in a comfort zone while I am working. That's not the way I like to do things. I want to be pressurized and challenged every day.

Daniel Craig

#3. My dad has worked so hard his whole life. He doesn't deserve to see his daughters going out embarrassing themselves and flashing their knickers. I want to make my parents proud.

Petra Stunt

#4. Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.

Theodore T. Munger

#5. The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

Helen Caldicott

#6. Fuckyou-ish?" "The English dialect of the ancient language 'fuckyou.' Very old. Dignified even.

Celia Kyle

#7. The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by pleasure, but the harvest is reaped in age by pain.

Charles Caleb Colton

#8. The great Jewish Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, "The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use" ('God in Search of Man' p34)

Paul F Herring

#9. Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.

Lauren Collins

#10. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Kiese Laymon

#11. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden