Avverted Quotes & Sayings

I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump. — Andrea Mackris

You dangle on the leash of your own longing;
your need grows teeth — Margaret Atwood

Of his new book, Don says: It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space. — Donald Miller

It almost seems that 'culture' requires aspirants to participate according to their specific qualifications, to become adherents to an immense task of justifying a 'logic' that knows very well how to say practically everything and hardly knows how to listen. — Gemma Corradi Fiumara

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early — Rupert Brooke

No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man. — Herman Melville

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters. — Jonathan Aitken

I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things, all these guilt-filled things, all these anxiety filled things are material. — Robert Mankoff

Don't compare yourself to others. That's when you start to lose confidence in yourself. — Will Smith

Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's — Aldous Huxley

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible. — Herbert Spencer