Pettishness Quotes

#1. I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. I've been very lucky in my employment over the years. You would think that the worst job I've ever had was as janitor, but it really wasn't, because I was a janitor at my dad's office building when I was younger.

Chris Carmack

#3. We dance to rekindle the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Margaret Thatcher

#5. She's a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. Hold on, hold on, hold on," said the Hooded Person of Unknown Gender. "Are you really here to slay a dragon?"

"Yes! Why else would I be so far from home?"

"Sightseeing?" suggested the Female.

Ness Kingsley

#7. Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors.

Richard Paul Evans

#8. No more apologies," he says. "I don't want you to think I'm holding something over you. I'm not. This isn't a favor. This is just love.

Heather Cocks

#9. Those who have happy homes seldom turn out badly.

Daniel H. Hill

#10. It's always a shame when good men die for a wretched man's cause.

Matthew Wolf

#11. At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

John Daniel

#12. It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius - progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.

William Wickenden

#13. I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

Natalia Vodianova

#14. We have very beautiful bad weather here at present - rain, wind, thunder - but with splendid effects; that's why I like it.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. US President Gerald Ford's golf was so bad we thought he was a 'Hitman for the PGA!

Bob Hope

#16. Lawmakers have good reason to want a healthy broadcast industry. Broadcast TV stations provide more than 186,000 jobs on an annual basis, which directly generate more than $30 billion in economic activity.

Gordon Smith