Neuberger Quinn Quotes & Sayings

[L]ife is one big jest at the expense of humanity. -
'The Mupondawana Dancing Champion — Petina Gappah

The world is alive with words. The animals, the trees, the grass, and the birds hum with their own words. "Life," they say. "Air," they breathe. "Heat," they hum. The birds call "Fly, fly!" and the leaves wave them onward, uncurling as they whisper "grow, grow." I — Amy Harmon

People seek the society of others who are exciting, disconcerting and volatile, who are never the same from one moment to the next and usually change complexion completely. — Thomas Bernhard

So long as your ambition is to stamp your existence upon existence, your nature on nature, then your ambition is corrupt and you are pursuing a ghost. — Christian Wiman

If you have a headache every Monday morning when it is time for you to go to work, perhaps you're driving the wrong car, perhaps you're taking the wrong route, or you may be in the wrong line of work. Obviously, only you can figure out the message. — Christiane Northrup

Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego. CONFLICT — Saul D. Alinsky

Shut it, right there, or I'll give you a hole that won't shut." He pointed the Colt at Clinton, clicking back the hammer. — C.G. Faulkner

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst. — George Bernard Shaw

The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't. — Mo Rocca

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes. — Jenny Slate

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books ... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites. — Lawrence Clark Powell