Salable Commodity Quotes

#1. It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.

Gay Talese

#2. You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

Amy Shearn

#3. But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

Bruce McCulloch

#4. Oh, my, you are one of the Chosen People," mocked Black-eyes.

"Of course I am," retorted Emily.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

#6. Do you think ladies' eyebrows can communicate as well?" she asked.
"No, they don't have sufficient thicketry," he said with authority.
"Thicketry?"
"Yes, that is the official term.

Anne Gracie

#7. Jewish history has been tragic to the Jews and no less tragic to the neighboring nations who have suffered them. Our major vice of old as of today is parasitism. We are a people of vultures living on the labor and good fortune of the rest of the world.

Samuel Roth

#8. The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

Thomas Carlyle

#9. Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.

Kabir

#10. The newspapers, the magazines, television, and radio produce a commodity: news, from the raw material of events. Only news is salable, and the news media determine which events are news, which are not.

Erich Fromm

#11. At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.

John Newcombe

#12. It is important to use
your hands, that is what distinguishes
you from a cow or a computer operator.

Paul Rand

#13. The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers.

David Levithan

#14. Coincidence is the language of the stars, for something to happen, so many forces have to be put into action.

Paulo Coelho