Duotrope Adroit Quotes & Sayings

Why don't you snap your oars, you rascals? Bite something, you dogs! So, so, so, then: - softly, softly! That's it - that's it! long and strong. Give way there, give way! The devil fetch ye, ye ragamuffin rapscallions; ye are all asleep. Stop snoring, ye sleepers, and pull. Pull, will ye? pull, can't ye? pull, won't ye? Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes don't ye pull? - pull and break something! pull, and start your eyes out! Here," whipping out the sharp knife from his girdle; "every mother's son of ye draw his knife, and pull with the blade between his teeth. That's it - that's it. Now ye do something; that looks like it, my steel-bits. Start her - start her, my silverspoons! Start her, marling-spikes!" Stubb's exordium to his crew is given here at large, because he had rather a peculiar way of talking to them in general, and especially in inculcating the religion of rowing. — Herman Melville

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that. — Matthew Collings

You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won. — Dwight Howard

Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses. — Susan Estrich

As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right. — Diego Rodriguez Telechea

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks. — Billie Jean King

It's not all Hash Pipes and Hand-grenades — David Usher

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier. — Robert Breault

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different. — Estelle

Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up. — Rob Portman

Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

He had the kind of character in which prudence is a vice, and good advice the most dangerous nourishment. — Edith Wharton

The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself. — Peter Thiel

Messi is on a different level. The fact he is doing what he is year after year says that he is the best of all time. — Ruud Van Nistelrooy