Precedidos Quotes & Sayings

Don't order me around like that unless it involves a safe word and a couple of interesting toys. — Tessie Bradford

I had rather be right than be President. — Henry Clay

Half as big but twice as mad. — George R R Martin

As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book. — J.D. Salinger

At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing. — Douglas Adams

I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan. — Craig Roberts

One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds. — James Wolcott

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity. — Jaggi Vasudev

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour. — James Wolpert

I was angry. I'd gotten a lot of Thank You For Your Service handshakes, but nobody really knew what that service meant, you know? — Phil Klay

I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing. — Thomas Jefferson

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real. — Kim Stanley Robinson