Clippings Examples Quotes & Sayings

Fond of bewailing the decadence of the modern world, of denouncing the younger generation for its lack of idealism and public spirit, he is blind to the fact of his own enormous selfishness. He is one of those invalids who make use of their real or imagined sufferings to get their own way. — Christopher Isherwood

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous. — Orson Scott Card

If there is any irreverence in my own work, I hope it is the irreverence I bear in mistrusting my own sincere self, which then sincerely mistrusts the irreverent me. If there is a bottom to this, I think it is a life's work. — Mary Ruefle

Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye — Stephen King

Well, this was uncomfortable. We should do it again sometime in the never future. — Stacey O'Neale

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy. — John Mulaney

For a man so strong, he was gentle. When his hands, his arms, his mouth were on her, he moved as if afraid she might shatter if held too tightly. Their nights together had been and remained a blaze of passion, for he was a wickedly patient lover who took delight in her responses to him. But more than that, in the quiet hours after he would hold her, both of them weary, content, sleepy. She would lie in his arms and feel no worry, or sadness, or anxiety. She only felt beautiful. And desired. And safe. — Jim Butcher

We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions. — Jeffrey K. Liker

Sometimes it's as important to prove there is no answer to a question as it is to answer it. — Keigo Higashino

I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression. — Young Jeezy

The large blue unknown berry
tastes medicinal.
Am I poisoned? — Joanna McClure

Generative testing is an approach to testing software that was made popular by the QuickCheck library. Originally written in Haskell and since ported to several other programming languages (Ruby, Python, C, C++, Objective-C, Smalltalk, Java, JavaScript, Erlang, Scala, Clojure...), the QuickCheck library allows the developer to separate test logic from the generation of test cases. This means that, as developers, we can spend less time instructing the compiler how to test our code, and focus instead on what properties we expect our code to have. — Anonymous

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness? — Deborah Sampson

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. — Joseph Pilates

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries. — P.D. James