Renumbering Excel Quotes & Sayings

He told me to be funny for the Fat Lady, once. — J.D. Salinger

A crooked stick can still draw a straight line, and a messed-up dude like me can still write about an awesome God. — Jefferson Bethke

Prayer, sacred supernatural act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Whatever you do, it's over when you do it - but first you have to do it. — Ornette Coleman

By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets. — Richard Russo

I was more of kind (who was better at) building businesses and selling them. That was a big thing for me. I was very good at that. I wasn't good as a boss. I was either your best friend or your worst enemy. I didn't balance the two very well. (So) I sold them. — Drew Waters

The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal. — William Winwood Reade

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus. — Donald Miller

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine. — N.K. Jemisin

I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder ... We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it. — Susan B. Anthony

It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security. — J.D. Greear

If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases,
there's something wrong with your argument. — Maurice Saatchi