Shortz Quotes

#1. Leeky Shortz says "Live life like your arse is on fire!

Maxine Mansfield

#2. The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?

Will Shortz

#3. She smiles and slips her arm through his. Her tread is light and bouncy and I can almost see the ghost of her cheerleader's ponytail bobbing at the back of her head.

Laura Wiess

#4. I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

Willie Stargell

#5. As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.

Will Shortz

#6. Whatever the intellectual quality of the education given our children, it is vital that it include elements of love and compassion, for nothing guarantees that knowledge alone will be truly useful to human beings.

Dalai Lama

#7. I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on.

David Rudisha

#8. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Erica Jong

#9. To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Wendell Phillips

#10. A sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

Sarah Addison Allen

#11. All governments are ordained by God, but none compare to government by God, theocracy.

William R. Bowen

#12. You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

Belinda Carlisle

#13. I pulled on the restraints, frustrated, hurting, and completely devastated. I could feel tears sliding down my skin, into my ears, and back over my scalp. Which told me that they'd cut off my hair, too. For some reason, that little bit of vanity was what it took to undo me completely.

Elizabeth Schechter

#14. People always hurt us with their trust, Karla said to me once. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy

Will Shortz