Kleenexes Box Quotes

#1. The man is really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem of others. In our society, the fastest and surest way to do this is by amassing a great deal of money. So the money becomes a substitute, a symbol, for the esteem.

Sydney J. Harris

#2. It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

Woodrow Wilson

#3. I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

Marc Jacobs

#4. I'm proud that somebody like myself has made it to the very top.

Christine Lagarde

#5. I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Grant-Lee Phillips

#6. Leftists are brainless, rightists are heartless.

Sercan Leylek

#7. Lisette was born without the ability to speak, but she'd been brazen with written words as a child, substituting a sharp tongue for a poison pen.

Sarah Addison Allen

#8. There aren't that many policy changes you can do, so I'd say you ride the wave and hope that maybe some of the external events help you.

Brad Carson

#9. Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.

Steven Pinker

#10. When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

Aaron Sorkin

#11. You know how comfortably you go on as a bachelor, and how very much you would dislike to be tied to a wife's apron-strings."

He laughed a little ruefully, but denied it. "I shouldn't dislike being tied to your apron-strings.

Georgette Heyer

#12. One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Peter Higgs

#13. We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.

Umberto Boccioni