Officialese Quotes

#1. I know, if anyone does - all research workers know - how much is missed that really matters because reports have to be written in officialese. They have to be, because a lot of us can't take anything seriously unless you make it dull for them.

E.C. Bentley

#2. Wisdom married to immortal verse.

William Wordsworth

#3. But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

Patrick Carman

#4. I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

Adam Lambert

#5. Other studies indicate that compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately ten times as long every day drilling academic activities with their children. By contrast, Western kids are more likely to participate in sports teams. This

Amy Chua

#6. With currencies and interest rates far more volatile than the economic activity that they guide, the horizons of investment and commerce had to shrink proportionally with real economic knowledge.

George Gilder

#7. Men and women yearners must realize their unity even while in the
flesh; not by communion of the flesh, but by the Will to Freedom from
the flesh and all the impediments it places in their way to perfect
Unity and Holy Understanding

Mikhail Naimy

#8. I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

Gwendoline Christie

#9. Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.

Bertrand Russell

#10. The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Paul Kane

#11. Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Max Frisch

#12. Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Al Stewart

#13. What you pay attention to matters less than how you pay attention.

Emily Nagoski

#14. So, what is it that I bring to her?" [Angus]
"Strength. Security. Stability. All the best 's' words." [Truman]

Truman smirked and so did Angus.

Elizabeth Finn

#15. Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.

Aleksandr Voinov