Dorkitude Quotes & Sayings

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer ... — Ambrose Bierce

I shall answer all the questions you are afraid to ask me openly. Do I wish to pay my workers more than their services are worth to me? I do not. Do I wish to sell my product for less than my customers are willing to pay me? I do not. Do I wish to sell it at a loss or give it away? I do not. — Ayn Rand

On their deathbed men will speak true, they say. — J.R.R. Tolkien

At the heart of Vonnegut's voice is a humility my earnest young self didn't feel comfortable with: In it, I heard evidence of real humiliation. War really was hell, with hell being the place where whatever you normally counted on or leaned on was taken from you, absolutely. Bill Pilgrim is a skinny virginal dork, and when he gets to war, war leaps on his skinny dorkitude and devastates him unglamorously, and haunts him ever after. — George Saunders

An investment is tax inefficient if it relies heavily on investment income, instead of its price movement. — Michael Brentwood

To put it mildly, Beer Geeks are particular about the beer they drink. They don't waste time, money, and liver capacity on bad beer, and they put a formidable amount of thought into the beer they consume. But consume they do, and impressively well. — Patrick Dawson

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. — Judy Biggert

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings? — Brian Greene

He wanted her nails in his back and her tongue in his mouth and her hips rocking under his until he came so hard he saw stars. Then he wanted to sleep with her in his arms afterward. And wake up and eat and make love again. And talk in the dark about things both stupid and serious - Oh, God. He was bonding with her. The bonding thing was happening. — J.R. Ward

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. — Sophia Loren

The Russians are the dirtiest players I've ever seen. — Bobby Clarke

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. — Andrew Schneider

The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God
why do I always forget? — Ann Voskamp

Going for it and changing what you could change-that's what success was all about. — Julie Garwood