Misfired Concrete Quotes

#1. I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Joan Countryman

#2. Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing ... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

Vikram Seth

#3. I don't have the looks to compete at a bar, and I'm not that funny. So the last thing I want is to be in a situation where that's what I'm competing on. I'd rather be on OkCupid or Match, where I can write a 300-word essay about myself that's really good.

Sam Yagan

#4. I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Stephen Cole Kleene

#5. Coffee is one of my major food groups.

Sylvia Day

#6. Behind every smile there is love, thought, and action.

Debasish Mridha

#7. When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.

Will Rogers

#8. More often than not, this backfires, and our attempts to be different result in uniformity, our attempts to be plain draw attention to ourselves, our attempts to temper sexuality inadvertently exploit it, and our attempts to avoid offense accidentally create it.

Rachel Held Evans

#9. I wonder if Effie will still be wearing that silly pink wig, or is she'll be sporting some other unnatural color especially for the Victor Tour.

Suzanne Collins

#10. Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

Dennis Lehane