Readability Test Quotes

#1. I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published, replied, "Classic books." One of the students asked her, "You mean like Kafka?" Apparently she said, "Oh, I don't think I would publish Kafka."

Matthew Specktor

#2. In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Jane Austen

#3. It's the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. You leave that life out there," he said, motioning to the street. "You cross the threshold of your home and that's it. Don't bring any of that into your home. Ever.

Frank Lucas

#5. When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Elvis Presley

#6. The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

John Zerzan

#7. I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

Sandra Brown

#8. My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

Christian Louboutin

#9. I love you is a good thing to say if you can mean it

Neil Gaiman

#10. As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Henry Rollins

#11. My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#12. Every day we all make little MISTAKES in life, but that doesn't mean we have to pay for them for the rest of our lives.Sometimes GOOD people make BAD choices, but that doesn't mean we are BAD people...It just means we are HUMAN!

Karen Gibbs