Explication Essay Quotes & Sayings

Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on. — Franklyn Ajaye

He once begged alms of a statue, and, when asked why he did so, replied, To get practice in being refused. — Diogenes

Failure is an option, fear is not. — James Cameron

Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening. — Chang-rae Lee

Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived all winter, he had doubtless fed on slugs all the autumn. I could have kissed him on the spot. — Celia Thaxter

One side sticks to the facts, and the other side is close to playing with its poop. — Keith Olbermann

Statistics show that men are interested in three things: careers, sports, and sex. That's why they love professional cheerleaders."
Cal put down his fork "Well, that's sexist."
"Yes i know," she said. "But it's true isn't it?"
"What?" Cal tried to find his place in the conversation. "Oh, the sports and sex thing? Not at all. This is the twenty-first century. We've learned how to be sensitive."
"You have?"
"Sure," Cal said. "Otherwise we wouldn't get laid. — Jennifer Crusie

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil
and he will not stay loyal to him
for he is also destined to become a master. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. — James Iha

Sometimes the path to a more beautiful relationship with people we love requires a willingness to accede to non-evil requests that we do not consider to be wise. Why? Since we have authority to grant the request, a withholding of the request can be misinterpreted and damage the relationship irreparably. The decision to put aside our misgivings and grant the non-evil request can, however, enable the other person come to a realization of the wisdom of our opinion and our love for them, resulting in the most beautiful relationships we can imagine. — Oghenovo Obrimah

We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. — Robert James Waller

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself. — Mihail Sebastian

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged. — Thomas Gilovich