Singley Small Quotes & Sayings

Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility. — Martin Fowler

Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're being asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds? — Michael Crichton

Not really, definitely not from any outside sources. If there was any pressure it was just from ourselves. We just wanted to make sure that what we were doing was right. But, you know, when you're dealing with any kind of art, I think pressure really doesn't help at all. All you can do is give what comes out of you - and that's what we did. — Chris Hesse

The Lord healed all our wounds. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When, she wonders, did she stop being a child? The law says it was when she turned eighteen, but the law doesn't know her. — Neal Shusterman

When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp. — Jerry Reed

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high. — Scott Thompson

And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit. — Katherine Anne Porter