Perspicacity Crossword Quotes

#1. One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?

Thornton Wilder

#2. Ideas are more powerful than people.

Jim DeMint

#3. He hated it when you called him a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron

Jerome Salinger

#4. Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

Yusuf Hamied

#5. At last

don't be anything for me
be something which is
Clear as ocean water
Be cloud , but don't rain on me
Be sun, but don't shine for me
Be moon, but don't enlighten me
But be lucid, in what
You are to me
So that I can think, where do you exist

Arshad Ahmad

#6. Bold. Risky. Dramatic. I approve.

Rachel Vincent

#7. It can remind you of the bias of provincial New England, whose higher culture has been so exclusively one of books that it has grown incapable even of appraising the worth of other modes of expression

F.O. Matthiessen