Incentivizing Performance Quotes & Sayings

Be the ghost of the empty streets! You shall be crowned with the touch of great inspirations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I appeared before him now, he had no such honeyed terms as "love" and "darling" on his lips: the best words at my service were "provoking puppet," "malicious elf," "sprite," "changeling," &c. For caresses, too, I now got grimaces; for a pressure of the hand, a pinch on the arm; for a kiss on the cheek, a severe tweak of the ear. It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender. — Charlotte Bronte

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey

I don't dig staying in one groove. — Chico Hamilton

Optimism skipped out on the rent a while back, but the cynic in the penthouse won't leave until led out by marshals. — Colson Whitehead