Retreading Quotes

#1. I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

Hari Kunzru

#2. Arlo: Show her the ropes.
Finn: Where do we keep the ropes again?

Julie Anne Peters

#3. But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Daniel Goleman

#4. But the fact is," I continued, "that despite their sadness, and despite my guilt, and despite Egan's anger, I went ahead and did what I needed to do for myself. In the end, it's selfish.

Kate Mulgrew

#5. Life is an opportunity; it is a chance that is given to a man only once.

Sunday Adelaja

#6. If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me.

Kim Kardashian

#7. As cheesy as this is gonna sound, everyone join hands."
Alex looked from my face to our tangled fingers and smirked. "As much as I like this, I'm thinking now's not the time to sing 'Kumbaya'.

Jus Accardo

#8. Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.

John Dos Passos