Modern Toss Quotes

#1. If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.

David Foster Wallace

#2. Others can be very hard to solve - two notoriously hard examples are predicting extended weather conditions or stock-market performance.

Anasse Bari

#3. I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

Robin McKinley

#4. I've been working on issues of poverty for more than 20 years, and so it's ironic that the problem that and question that I most grapple with is how you actually define poverty. What does it mean?

Jacqueline Novogratz

#5. There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Theodore Dalrymple

#6. The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense.

Alfie Kohn

#7. Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - Chesterfield.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Jane Rule

#9. You are nothing but a bird with an attitude.

Susan Ee

#10. We all have our little sorrows ... and the littler you are, the larger the sorrow.

Martha N. Beck