Respondents Survey Quotes & Sayings

He said to me, 'The book has found its reader,' and what could I do but agree with him? — Thomas Ligotti

Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking.
Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going
soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to
business. Now get out of my sight. — Mario Puzo

How could I persuade the in-laws I was the right one for their daughter when, instead of focusing on small talk, all I could think about was not to kill them? I could only imagine what I'd say to the prospective in-laws, Hello, it's a pleasure to eat, I mean, meet you. — Jayde Scott

If I only had 12 years left to live, I'd want to live it as a member of Congress because that was the 12 longest years of my life. — Mike Pence

In our hunger for guidance, we were ordinary. The American Freshman Survey, which has followed students since 1966, proves the point. One prompt in the questionnaire asks entering freshmen about "objectives considered to be essential or very important." In 1967, 86 percent of respondents checked "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," more than double the number who said "being very well off financially." Naturally, students looked to professors for moral and worldly understanding. Since then, though, finding meaning and making money have traded places. The first has plummeted to 45 percent; the second has soared to 82 percent. — Anonymous

Sister,
Words cannot express the love I have for you, or the hope I have for your future, but they would only fail in comparison to those God has already written for you ... He is faithful. Let Him restore you in His perfect timing and in His perfect way. — Nicole Deese

A survey of high-earning professionals in the corporate world found that 62 percent work more than fifty hours a week and 10 percent work more than eighty hours per week.18 Technology, while liberating us at times from the physical office, has also extended the workday. A 2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 38 percent checked e-mail at the dinner table, and 69 percent can't go to bed without checking their in-box.19 — Sheryl Sandberg

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me. — David Crosby

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate. — Gordon Ramsay

Schumpeter may well have seen singles as rational. but in a survey of Americans conducted in 1957, more than half the respondents said that unmarried people were "sick", "immoral", or "neurotic," while about a third viewed them "neutrally". — Eric Klinenberg

I'm weird. I'm not too focused on the physicality of a man. They just have to become my best friend, and then I start to get attracted to them. I've never been in a bar and just hit on a guy and started kissing him; I've never done that in my life. — Ana De La Reguera

The best man day in the world would involve building a bridge and then blowing up that bridge. Which is why you can't make a better man movie than The Bridge on the River Kwai, unless you make Two Bridges on the River Kwai. — Joel Stein

I'm pretty focused on what I do. I think directing is a very specific talent, and I'm not real big on putting puzzles together, which is basically what a film is. — Samuel L. Jackson

I feel I'm entitled to my opinion, right or wrong. — Jimmie Johnson

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country's top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn't have a law school — Alexandra Robbins

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered. — Robin Marantz Henig