Cf Preserve Single Quotes & Sayings

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible. — Catharine Beecher

Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced. — Thomas Huxley

On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan's severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler. — Dan Chaon

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct. — Steve Pavlina

I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film. — Clint Eastwood

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world — Eric S. Raymond

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes. — Patricia Heaton

I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that I wanted the role very much. — Hugh Laurie

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same. — Harold Prince