Niftiest Quotes

#1. The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

Jeff Greenfield

#2. Heaven is huge. It's a world. It's not a flat place in the clouds with billowing fabric blowing around and baby angels sitting on clouds, dropping grapes in your mouth.

Paul Silway

#3. We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.

Damon Suede

#5. I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

Alain Ducasse

#6. Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

J.B. Priestley

#7. Handsome boy that you are ... aren't you ... yes, you are. She smooshes his face in her hands, and I actually find myself jealous of my dog.
I'm jealous of my dog.
I really need to get laid.

Samantha Towle

#8. What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#9. Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. I'm an advocate for whole brain thinking. I'm not an advocate for the right brain or the left brain.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#11. Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Bayley

#12. There's always challenges to everything.

Howard Berger

#13. If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.

Lloyd Alexander

#14. One who can move mountains start with the little stones.

Confucius

#15. Our selves are are rough and unrehearsed tales we tell the world.

William Alexander

#16. We don't want civilians walking around who know about us. Got it? (Tee) Wow, you're like a ferocious bunny, aren't you? (Nathan) Worse. A bunny can be fluffy sometimes. Tee always goes for the throat. Trust me. I'm her partner and she's shot me three times now. (Joe)

Sherrilyn Kenyon