Terminal Investment Quotes

#1. When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

Daniel Handler

#2. One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim."
"For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

Megan Whalen Turner

#3. Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

Zac Posen

#4. He had won, easily. This was something else he could do, and do well, and his Dad had been there to witness his success.

Michael Braccia

#5. People who told you to "think fast" were always those who thought much more slowly than you did.

Charlie Jane Anders

#6. It's all over but the crying.

Hank Williams Jr.

#7. It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?'

Anna Kendrick

#8. Of all the many and (thanks to a free press) the ever-multiplying blessings attendant upon the "glorious constitution" of literature, not the least precious and profitable to a modern cultivator of systems and syllables, in pamphlets, magazines, and folios, is the right of Quotation.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#9. I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know.

Jimmy Breslin

#10. One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

David Brin

#11. I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

John Muir