Humorous Cliff Note Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know the inner me was hungry," I said to Art.
"That's because it already starved to death. — Joe Hill

Consumer goods become enlightenment, relationships, anything! It doesn't really matter because infinity exists in everything. "Greater than the greatest, smaller than the smallest, the self dwells in the hearts of all," that is the Upanishads. — Frederick Lenz

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have. — Samuel Richardson

I finally find a girl I could really be with, maybe the only girl in the world, and I had what? Two months with her? It's not enough. After everything she went through - everything I went through - we deserve more than that. Or maybe we don't. Anyway, life doesn't work like that. It doesn't care about fair and unfair. — Kendare Blake

The United States supports the reintegration of people who have fought with the Taliban into Afghan society provided they: one, renounce al Qaeda, two, lay down their arms and renounce violence, and three, participate in the public political life of the country in accordance with the constitution. — Richard Holbrooke

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs. — Ninette De Valois

Open-source software shows the potential of social norms. In the case of Linux and other collaborative projects, you can post a problem about a bug on one of the bulletin boards and see how fast someone, or often many people, will react to your request and fix the software-using their own leisure time. Could you pay for this level of service? Most likely. But if you had to hire people of the same caliber they would cost you an arm and a leg. Rather, people in these communities are happy to give their time to society at large (for which they get the same social benefits we all get from helping a friend paint a room). What can we learn from this that is applicable to the business world? There are social rewards that strongly motivate behavior-and one of the least used in corporate life is the encouragement of social rewards and reputation. — Dan Ariely

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me. — Tyson Gay

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world. — Sydney Pollack

I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than £40. — Tom Odell

Life is a series of stupid decisions interrupted by luck. — Alessandra Torre

She's altered the group chemistry, because when Dani is in situations like this, the question of whether she's male or female is irrelevant. Like at a masquerade wearing only an eye mask as a disguise. Somehow that's enough to cloud the senses. They know Dani is a girl but they're far more interested in whether she really is what people say she is. — V.A. Fearon

Blessings and burdens are not mutually exclusive. — Ryan Holiday

But, you say, there is very little conversation in this book. Why isn't there more dialoge? What we want in a book by this citizen is people talking; that is all he knows how to do and now he doesn't do it. The fellow is no philosopher, no savant, an incompetent zoologist, he drinks too much and cannot punctuate readily and now he has stopped writing dialogue. Some one ought to put a stop to him. He is bull crazy. — Ernest Hemingway,

He might be a dragon, he might be someone whose name instilled fear in other people, but boy howdy, he sure turned my crank. — Katie MacAlister