Newser Ratings Quotes & Sayings

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying. — James Surowiecki

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. — Jeanette Winterson

Death is insulting, and I resented its sudden appearance, like an unannounced visit from a boorish relative. — Sue Grafton

Holly is the bestselling author and co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles series and won a Newbery Honor for her novel Doll Bones. Cassie is the author of bestselling YA series, including The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices. They both live in Western Massachusetts, about ten minutes away from each other. — Holly Black

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you. — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something. — John Hannah

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton

I've got at least two major project ideas that I've been chewing on for several years in my head and I've been trying to resist them both. But I have learned over the years that when they don't go away and they're still in there, you probably have to resign yourself to the fact that you're going to do something about them. — James Balog

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury

Childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun.
(Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when I inquired about the Great-Experience-You-Are-Missing.) — Shulamith Firestone

be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get — R H Sin

The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons. — Keri Hulme

She's my best friend. I'm pretty sure if I committed murder, she'd grab a shovel instead of judging me. — Vi Keeland