Lemonick 2002 Quotes

#1. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

John Scalzi

#2. I have a hands-off policy when it comes to my larynx.

Jeffrey Donovan

#3. The universe could be a wondrous thing. The universe had out did herself. The universe would be getting flowers.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Pierre De Coubertin

#5. Another ten points from Gryffindor," said Snape. "I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room.

J.K. Rowling

#6. The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you.

Brandy Norwood

#8. When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

Sue Monk Kidd

#9. Because of their historical theory of the "alienation of labor" (that the worker must become less and less in control of the work of his hands) the Marxist parties never fought for the man-worthy job itself.

Paul Goodman

#10. As a loyal American and I think a patriotic American, no, I don't want Sarah Palin to be president.

Bill Maher

#11. God'll send the bill to you.

James Russell Lowell