Unmannered Quotes

#1. In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?

Aubrey Beardsley

#2. Stupid quotes are only Twitters in disguise.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Be curious, not judgmental.

Walt Whitman

#5. Because if you fidget or wriggle or squirm or sass me or get an answer wrong, I'll wiggle my ears - (Wiggles her ears: they vibrate dramatically. MYRON and BEBE duck under their desks) MYRON and BEBE: NO! MRS. GORF: --stick out my tongue and turn you into apples!

Louis Sachar

#6. It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

John Owen

#7. We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money.

Woody Hayes

#8. Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

Pat Roberts