Excursus Quotes & Sayings

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long! — Zig Ziglar

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way. — Bruce Sterling

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me. — Jay Reatard

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid. — Stanley Tucci

Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane. — Mahatma Gandhi

You are sure that I would not be well advised to make certain excisions and eliminations? You do not think it would be a good thing to cut, to prune? I might, for example, delete the rather exhaustive excursus into the family life of the early Assyrians? — P.G. Wodehouse

My own death threats have declined considerably. — Ian McKellen