Fibbers Admission Quotes & Sayings

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer — George Hamilton

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much. — Paul Auster

So we show up on her porch out of the blue, kidnap her, feed her frozen fruit and ask her on a date. Genius — Aprilynne Pike

My dear ... " he said almost tenderly, "you haven't begun to learn the worst of me. — Lisa Kleypas

I hope to prove that it is entirely false, and false not in detail but in principle. It is not merely an assemblage of particular mistakes. It is one big mistake and a mistake of a special kind. It is, namely, a category-mistake. It represents the facts of mental life as if they belonged to one logical type or category (or range of types or categories), when they actually belong to another r)The dogma is therefore a philosopher's myth. — Anonymous

The term "escalation of commitment" was first coined by Barry Staw, a business professor at the University of California, Berkeley.4 It's defined as a decision-making pattern in which a person - for our purposes, a business leader - continues to support or believe in a strategy even after it has continually failed. Escalation of commitment is often described as the inability to let go, or as an obsessive need to try to succeed even when failure is inevitable. — Laurence G. Weinzimmer

How do we make sure that rising tides lift all boats and not just the yachts? — Thomas Perez

For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Daisy!" He walked away from the tree, turning her so that she could not avoid looking at him, and used his most severe tone. "A well-behaved young lady does not attempt to dislocate her master's shoulder." She gave him a sorrowful look, and he was tempted to delude himself into thinking she understood, but just at that moment, the damned rodent scampered down the tree, and she tried to take off again. This time he was ready for her. Blinkers might be a good idea. * — Ella Quinn

Don't blame others for stepping on you on their way up. It was you who gave them the chance to step on you.
Try not to step on anyone on your way up, but try even harder not to let anyone step on you. — Swetha Dhanagari

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. — Marie Windsor