Eds Funny Quotes & Sayings

Accuracy first," I used to tell the writers. "We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately! — Sefton Delmer

She that fails to command her thoughts will soon lose command of her actions. — John C. Maxwell

I thought you'd say it might be a trap.'
'It might be trap,' he said.
'It doesn't feel like a trap.'
'Well it wouldn't, would it? Not if it was a good trap. — Philip Reeve

There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [ ... just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.] — David Mason

His eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell. — Jessie Douglas Kerruish

The thing about seeing the big picture and being self-aware is knowing that it's not about you. It's about the big picture. It's not about you. It's not. This is not about you. — Jimmy Iovine

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible. — Jencarlos Canela

No fruit dies so vile and offensive a death as the banana ... — Kiran Desai

1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. And often the lamp will fall over and catch the house on fire. So mothers hate it, but it's their only option. — Jacqueline Novogratz

The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity. — Frederick Lenz

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of obscurity, makes millionaires of them and watches them self-destruct? — Joyce Carol Oates