Doublespeak Award Quotes & Sayings

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat. — Jennie Finch

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. — Harlan Coben

I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. — Adam Driver

I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family. — Francesca Annis

Despite our perennial bad behavior, our moral progress seems to me unmistakable. — Sam Harris

didn't thank
didn't wave goodbye
didn't flutter the air with kisses
a mound of gifts unwrapped
bed unmade
no appetite

always elsewhere

though it was raining elsewhere
though strangers peopled the streets
though we at home slaved and
baked and wept and
hung ornaments
and perfumed the dark
did he marvel
did he thank

was he grateful did he know
was he human
was he there

always elsewhere:
didn't thank
didn't kiss
toothbrush stiffened with unuse
puppy whining in the hall
car battery dead
sweaters unraveled

was that human?

Went where? — Joyce Carol Oates

No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. — Cornelia Funke

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one. — A.J. Liebling

You know, I feel sorry for the young artists. — Waylon Jennings

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward. — Kevin Hart

For a moment, I almost felt sorry for her. Then the bitch blasted me with her water magic, and I got over it. — Jennifer Estep

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations. — Brian Acton