Clarifies Define Quotes & Sayings

Raise the bar higher than your opinion... — Gino Norris

The immigration issue is a gateway issue for Hispanics, no doubt about it. — Marco Rubio

It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible God, it is such a confusion of contradictions; of watery instabilities and iron firmness; of goody-goody abstract morals made out of words, and concreted hell-born ones made out of acts; of fleeting kindness repented of in permanent malignities. — Mark Twain

The Jedi thought of the cellular organelles as symbionts, but to Plagueis midi-chlorians were interlopers, running interference for the Force and standing in the way of a being's ability to contact the Force directly. — James Luceno

I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write. — Doreen Cronin

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things. — Vannevar Bush

A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't. — Christian Louboutin

We all know what good writing is: It's the novel we can't put down, the poem we never forget, the speech that changes the way we look at the world. It's the article that tells us when, where, and how, the essay that clarifies what was hazy before. Good writing is the memo that gets action, the letter that says what a phone call can't. It's the movie that makes us cry, the TV show that makes us laugh, the lyrics to the song we can't stop singing, the advertisement that makes us buy. Good writing can take form in prose or poetry, fiction or nonfiction. It can be formal or informal, literary or colloquial. The rules and tools for achieving each are different, but one difficult-to-define quality runs through them all: style. "Effectiveness of assertion" was George Bernard Shaw's definition of style. "Proper words in proper places" was Jonathan Swift's. You — Mitchell Ivers

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect. — Abdu'l- Baha

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect. — E.L. Doctorow

Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University) — William Shatner

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. — Edwin H. Friedman

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though. — Stephen Malkmus

Do you not think we would be wiser to cherish each moment we have as God's gift? I would say 'tis better to love and be loved, if only for a day, than to have not loved at all. — Jody Hedlund

I didn't have to dig deep to love you, Jersey girl. Digging takes work. Falling in love with you was the simplest thing I've ever done. — E.L. Montes

Thank heaven for little girls!
For little girls get bigger every day. — Alan Jay Lerner