Style Guide Quotes

#1. Insomnia never comes to a man who has to get up exactly at six o'clock. Insomnia troubles only those who can sleep any time.

Elbert Hubbard

#2. I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to work with good directors and for me it's not really a plan each time I'm on a set with one of them; I think about what I can learn from them because I'm very aware that my filmmaking skills are very modest.

Sacha Baron Cohen

#3. American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic ... The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.

Dumas Malone

#4. Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector.

Dane Brookes

#5. Celibacy was a choice; asexual was just who he was.

Sam Burke

#6. It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Isaac Asimov

#7. We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people, and never get out of touch with human beings, if we are going to use the word of God skilfully amongst them.

Oswald Chambers

#8. I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.

Pietro Aretino

#9. And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

#10. A good government had to guide its people, sometimes gently, sometimes strictly, just as parents did. It could allow certain freedoms, but in a style that suited the country.

Amy Tan

#11. My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' - this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Sloane Crosley

#12. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

C.S. Lewis

#13. Delusions are states of mind which, when they arise within our mental continuum, leave us disturbed, confused and unhappy. Therefore, those states of mind which delude or afflict us are called 'delusions.'

Dalai Lama

#14. I don't think many of us face the same sort of physical adventures our ancestors did, at least not on a daily basis.

Jim Murphy

#15. We grew up, he thought. We didn't think it would happen, not then, not to us. But it did, and if I go in there it will be real: we're all grownups now. He

Stephen King

#16. In chains and darkness, wherefore should I stay, And mourn in prison, while I keep the key.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. Make sure you have the courage to stay true to your convictions and not let the market affect your emotions.

Walter Schloss

#18. Tyrant will eat whatever the fuck is available.

Stephen R. Bissette

#19. A good friend doesn't let you do stupid things ... alone.

Jacob Grimm