Yusko Online Quotes

#1. When I was knowingly misled but only learned that much later, that's really when I started to become disillusioned at the White House.

Scott McClellan

#2. What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand.

John Scalzi

#3. Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. The doors of our fridges, glimpses of cleavage, images of our birthday cakes, the setting sun: cheap photography makes visible the ways in which we are similar, and have for a long time been similar. Now we have proof, again, and again, and again. The

Teju Cole

#5. Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Dick Cavett

#6. I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Annie Lennox

#7. Until I truly loved, I was alone.

Caroline Norton

#8. I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.

James McGreevey

#9. So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing.

Sete Gibernau

#10. When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

Susan Sontag

#11. You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Jeremy Piven

#12. As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

David Brooks