Punctilio Quotes

#1. A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#2. That a story in The Daily Punctilio was completely true, and to show this article to so many volunteers, including the Baudelaire parents, the Snicket siblings, and the woman I happened to love.

Lemony Snicket

#3. Writers talk too much.

Lillian Hellman

#4. If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. He made a story for all of them, a story to give them strength. The words of the story poured out of his mouth as if they had substance, pebbles and stone extending to hold the corporal up ... knees from buckling ... hands from letting go of the blanket.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#6. I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

Amy Tan

#7. This culture of distraction was nothing new. Christianity was born into one.

Mark Sayers

#8. Once, I lived in an apartment with a skylight in the bathroom. Every winter, it would snow through the skyline, but we got a discount because of it.

Jim Parsons

#9. And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.

Denis Johnson

#10. The word he used was not "wallowing," there being no animals on Anarres to make wallows; it was a compound, meaning literally "coating continually and thickly with excrement." The flexibility and precision of Pravic lent itself to the creation of vivid metaphors quite unforeseen by its inventors.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

Beyonce Knowles

#12. Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

Stephen Pagliuca

#13. Her voice was as soft and sexy as ever. Those wide-set
blue eyes every bit as distrustful as they'd been during his last
encounter with her, which meant that chip on her shoulder, the
one he'd tried so desperately to dislodge, remained firmly in place.

Jackie Braun

#14. Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. One of the most powerful and prophetic analysts was Karl Marx. He showed how work can alienate a person from their nature and potential. Certain work can dull and darken human presence ... the linear mind can miss its gift ... Perception is crucial to understanding.

John O'Donohue

#16. All your troubles are due to those 'ifs', declared the Wizard.

L. Frank Baum