Perspective Witticism Quotes

#1. When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

John Fairclough

#2. On traditional economic theory:
We do not play chess as if we were a grandmaster, invest as if we were Warren Buffett, or cook like an Iron Chef. It is more likely we cook like Warren Buffett, who loves to eat at Dairy Queen.

Richard H. Thaler

#3. When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

Bai Ling

#4. And it's very, very funny
When you've lots and lots of money
To be horrible to those with none!
Be horrible to those with none!

Anna Russell

#5. You know how it is. Mean girls get mean in seventh grade and they stay that way until your ten-year reunion, when they want to be best friends again.

Julie Buxbaum

#6. Cloying tendrils of mist searched the city like skeletal fingers reaching deep into crevices, hoping to capture the elusive prey needed to satisfy gnawing hunger...

Jillian Kent

#7. A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Howard Fast

#8. When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body - or vagina - has to do the opposite.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

Kate Smith

#10. The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk ...

John Galsworthy

#11. The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

Steven Biko

#12. That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

Jodi Picoult