Verbal Judo Quotes

#1. As of today, you do anything that I feel is disrespecting our program in any way, you are gone! From this day forward, everyone will be at practice in uniform as we will either build this program into something or we will destroy it!

George M. Gilbert

#2. I think small towns are the closest to heaven you can get on earth. I'm glad that some other people, my wonderful readers especially, feel the same way I do.

Diana Palmer

#3. The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

William, Saroyan

#4. A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

Jean Renoir

#5. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

Dave Brat

#6. Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?

Wallace Shawn

#7. I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Milan Kundera

#8. In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Seth Klarman