Persnickity Quotes & Sayings

In what else, pray, does man differ from the other animals except in that he is used by words? — James Branch Cabell

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life. — Janina Gavankar

Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale. — David Letterman

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. Eccl 3:1 — Bible. New International Version

If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they're better off dead. — Susan Spann

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil ... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. — Moses

She is her odd self. The kiln has been fired. She is a person persnickity about keeping her house clean, but not above spitting on her desk to rub out a coffee stain. She will never be an athlete, or a mathematician, or a skinny person, or someone whose heart isn't snagged by the sight of fireflies on a summer night and the lilting cadence of a few good lines of poetry. — Elizabeth Berg

The individual is a nut so impossible to crack that no theoretic tooth will be able to manage it. And so nothing will be able to justify your defeat, bumblers! — Witold Gombrowicz

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate. — Russ Feingold