Semi Literate Quotes

#1. Look at self-satisfied pop singers or greasy, semi-literate athletes. People worship them. Why?"
"Because they're talented.

Anthony Horowitz

#2. I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

John Marston

#3. The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Robert Smith

#5. I can't emphasize this idea enough. Getting involved with your collaborator's problems almost always distracts you from your own. That can be tempting. That can be a relief. But it usually leads to disaster.

Twyla Tharp

#6. The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Blaise Pascal

#7. Had something to say? At any rate. We left our rooms pretty much

Donna Tartt

#8. But the nice man had cold eyes. When interacting with his fascinated lady-harem, they had been blue. But when he turned his attention to me - however briefly - I could have sworn that they turned gray, the color of water beneath a sky from which snow will soon fall.

Stephen King

#9. Get in the fucking car. You're a mean drunk.
You haven't seen me mean, mama's boy!
I told you we're close!
Yeah, so are me and my asshole! Doesn't mean I'm going to call it twice a day!

Jamie McGuire

#10. When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Julie Klassen

#11. Sydney tried - sometimes he really tried - but his default mindset didn't have those kinds of manners. What he really meant was more like "Jacob, get over here or I'll freeze your underwear." Something like that.

Rebecca McKinsey

#12. On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Daniel Webster

#13. It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time.

Joel Gretsch