Fancying Up Trash Quotes

#1. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Ken MacLeod

#2. It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#3. Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If
you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered?

George R R Martin

#4. Be too AWESOME to be sad.

Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

#5. I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Dennis Miller

#6. Institutionalized discrimination is bad for people and for societies. Widespread discrimination is also bad for economies. There is clear evidence that when societies enact laws that prevent productive people from fully participating in the workforce, economies suffer.

Jim Yong Kim

#7. Know your value, accept nothing but the best.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Tabitha was always trying unorthodox ways to set her up with guys. Although, to be fair to her sister, Tabitha didn't usually knock the guy unconscious before she forced them together.
Still, with Tabitha there was a first time for just about anything. And extreme blind-dating was very vintage T.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

Kenneth Koch

#10. When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday.. no matter what happened Tuesday.

Stephen Colbert

#11. Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)

James Patterson

#12. Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far?

Gretel Ehrlich

#13. How do I rate books on GoodReads?
1-star = avoid
2-star = meh
3-star = worthwhile read
anything 3-stars has something special

Brian Greiner