Lexophiles Quotes

#1. 'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real ... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir.

Tim O'Brien

#2. I love dressing up around the holidays! My friends also really like to get dressed up. It's an excuse to get fancy.

Beth Riesgraf

#3. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Maxwell Struthers Burt

#4. Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?

Jason Fried

#5. He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer ... He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

Trent Dilfer

#6. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Raymond Chandler

#7. It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

Stewart Butterfield

#8. Be undeniably good.

Steve Martin

#9. We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.

Alfred Robens

#10. What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.

Anna Quindlen

#11. That's two Appaloosas, two quarter horses and one mule, plus tack. They were ordered by a man called himself Theodore Roosevelt. No chance that would be the president, is there?

Hunter Shea

#12. Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.

Adelbert Von Chamisso

#13. Keeping your ear to the ground in the Markets is a sound investment.

Amah Lambert

#14. The book. The book ... think about a book. What a perfect invention. The best and most important ever.

Jann Arden

#15. The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

Laurence Leamer