Maurene Goodman Quotes

#1. At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

Ben Vereen

#2. I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Spalding Gray

#3. You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.

John Romero

#4. It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#5. America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?

Steve Erickson

#6. Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

John Updike

#7. Because Patty Anne can't handle living on her own. She can barely handle not setting herself on fire when she makes soda bread. My Gwenie doesn't have that problem."

"Because she hates soda bread?

Shelly Laurenston

#8. I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.

Bruce Barton

#9. We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.

E. M. Forster

#10. In practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.

Judith Lewis Herman