Sirree Quotes

#1. Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter

#2. The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Donna Tartt

#3. Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.

Steve Maraboli

#4. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#5. Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making a decision, was to deprive her of the bliss of childhood. Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#6. Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey

#7. No matter how often he strips the past from her body, she finds a way to wear it again.

Stuart Dybek

#8. Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

Jamelia

#9. I have a friend who can't bear the sight of any flower whose stamens show. It may sound Victorian and quaint, but this antipathy makes her gardening exquisitely simple.

Jane Garmey

#10. Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

John Green