Python Split Between Quotes & Sayings

When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes. — Haley Barbour

When you build on lies, you build strong and solid. It was the truth that undid you. — Kiran Desai

Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

No matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is. — Eleanor Roosevelt

A painter," he said, as though the word were an insult. "I'm a writer."
"You're a writer? I'm a writer."
"What do you write?"
"Stories. Books. A book. Fiction."
"Fiction. Pfft. That's not writing."
"What do you write?"
"I write the truth."
"Fiction is true. It doesn't have to be factual to be true."
"Says you. Have you been published?"
"As a matter of fact I have. My novel sold over 65,000 copies."
"All to your mom."
"My mom didn't even know about it. — Ben Monopoli

It's only a slight modification of causality. — Kevin Hearne

just because there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it didn't mean it was something to be desired. Not the way Mary saw it. Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames. — Anonymous

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it. — Robert Kyncl