Pithy Change Quotes & Sayings

It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance. — Charlie Trotter

What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet - and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. — Steve Jobs

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

How could I possibly know what I wanted, when I was only twenty-one? — Sinead O'Conner

Inside his copy of The Social Contract he keeps a letter from a young Picard, an enthusiast called Antoine Saint-Just: "I know you, Robespierre, as I know God, by your works."
When he suffers, as he does increasingly, from a distressing tightness of the chest and shortness of breath, and when his eyes seem too tired to focus on the printed page, the thought of the letter urges the weak flesh to more Works. — Hilary Mantel

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. — Steve Almond

As long as people believe in the written word and a good story.. They will believe in me. — Solange Nicole

The way he spoke about Catherine made Theresa hurt for him more than she would have imagined. It wasn't just his voice, but the look on his face before he described her - as if torn between the beauty of his memories and the pain of remembering. — Nicholas Sparks

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota. — Zig Ziglar