No Amount Is Too Small To Give Quotes

#1. Charientism (n.) A rhetorical term to describe saying a disagreeable thing in an agreeable way.

If I knew how to say disagreeable things in an agreeable fashion I most likely would not be spending most of my time siting alone in a room, reading the dictionary.

Ammon Shea

#2. Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

Robert Gottlieb

#3. I don't much like opera, either. Especially Wagner. There's something about Wagner that's just too piss-German, too fucking Bavarian for a Prussian like me. I like my music to be every bit as vulgar as I am myself. I like a bit of innuendo and stocking-top when a woman's singing a song.

Philip Kerr

#4. As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#5. in the small amount of time you have to live, you can be whatever you want. It means that even though the universe doesn't care enough to give you what you want, it doesn't care enough to stop you from having it, either.

Johnny B. Truant

#6. The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.

Kami Garcia

#7. A place to go - that's what my mother always instilled in me. You need a place to go. And you're worthless unless you have a place to go.

Larry David

#8. If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

Elliott Smith

#9. alignment is the necessary condition before empowering the individual will empower the whole team. Empowering the individual when there is a relatively low level of alignment worsens the chaos and makes managing the team even more difficult:

Peter M. Senge

#10. I was going to get smart, and I was going to change the world. I was audacious enough to believe it, too. Fortunately it takes that kind of audacity to accomplish anything significant.

Jamie Sedgwick

#11. There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

David Remnick

#12. It may be that the ignorant man, alone,
Has any chance to mate his life with life
That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life
That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze.

Wallace Stevens

#13. There has always been a feeling with people that they love my singing but not always the choice of material.

Alison Moyet

#14. Have you drowned stars like they were babies in a bath? I ended the First Age, and I'll end the second, too.

Laini Taylor

#15. It had replayed in her mind, over and over, growing in importance till it seemed her whole life could be slotted into two categories. Life before the kiss, and life after the kiss. Her life before the kiss had moved step by step ever closer to the predestined event. Meeting Dougal. And kissing him.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#16. A small lie, if it actually is a lie, condemns a man as much as a big and black falsehood. If a man will deliberately cheat to the amount of a single cent, give him opportunity and he would cheat to any amount.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#17. I should have remembered that your livery is a spider." He gave a very small smile, which for Doyle was an outrageous amount of expression. "Normally, I would give you time to adjust to my presence, our predicament, but your wards will not hold forever. We must act if you are to be saved.

Laurell K. Hamilton