John Bartlett Quotes

#1. The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

John Millington Synge

#2. I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

Nolan Bushnell

#3. Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!

John Bartlett

#4. Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

Maira Kalman

#5. I love the idea that I have the power to look for the projects I can put myself into, but I'm still at that level of just being happy to have a job.

Kristen Schaal

#6. Because you're a girl and when a girl says she's fine, she's lying.

J.A. George

#7. I feel ... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!

Pamela Anderson

#8. No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

Mignon McLaughlin

#9. What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Dan Quayle

#10. We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

Steven Pressfield

#11. I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

John Bartlett

#12. An antique is anything old with class.

John Bartlett

#13. To resist him that is set in authority is evil

John Bartlett

#14. The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn't matter if it's a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life.

Jim Fowler

#15. Reservation should be under 'Bartlett.' Right, that's two T's. Yes. 'Bart-let-et.'

John Bartlett

#16. Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended.

John Bartlett

#17. A little bird whispers in my ear: Be fair! Nobody, no country, has a monopoly of untruth.

Salman Rushdie

#18. People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#19. You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

John Bartlett