List Maxims Quotes & Sayings

Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime - the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible. — John Irving

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts. — John J. Ratey

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept. — Frederick Lenz

Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. — Karl Shapiro

If it is important do it everyday — Dan John

And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into. — Nick Hornby