Bannishd Quotes & Sayings

We lawyers do not write plain English. We use eight words to say what could be said in two. We use arcane phrases to express commonplace ideas. Seeking to be precise, we become redundant. Seeking to be cautious, we become verbose. Our sentences twist on, phrase within clause within clause, glazing the eyes and numbing the minds of our readers. The result is a writing style that has, according to one critic, four outstanding characteristics. It is (1) wordy, (2) unclear, (3) pompous, and (4) dull. — Richard C. Wydick

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. — Andrew Carnegie

I think that Twitter and YT and blogs are keeping media more honest. Everyone can be a journalist now. Everyone is a fact checker. — Shane Smith

Do you know what happens when you do nothing? Nothing. — Matthew Quick

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?' — Damon Lindelof

Great. Now we're all bloody inspired. — James Dashner

He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things. — Heywood Broun

I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day. — Marcia Gay Harden

Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving. — Vivian Gornick

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do. — Stephen Harper

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery