Signally Failed Quotes

#1. A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

Thomas Frank

#2. Every day one reads meretricious babble about 'globalization' and the abolition of frontiers, most of it amounting to little more than celebration of the worldwide availability of Wheel of Fortune.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my life but I don't live in it. The hoarding instinct in human relations.

Susan Sontag

#4. She has every reason to be mad. I just wish I could do something. She's no soldier like us. She's kind and gentle."

"Aye," Maven nodded in agreement. "Not all of us are built for it. What kind of world would it be if we were?

B.M. Tolbert

#5. Some men find the cool, disinterested, and understated attractive. Makes them think you're deep.

J.D. Robb

#6. When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life.

Vladimir Potanin

#7. The two most important questions in the world are:
How can I be the best version of myself &
How can I help others be their best version

Steven Aitchison

#8. I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

John M. Corse

#9. Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your arse, love, and sign it in person. Publishers and circumstance made you a bestselling author. Give a little back.

Nicholas Royle

#11. Wrath to Butch : I always knew you were a royal; just didn't think it went past the pain-in-the-ass part is all.

J.R. Ward