Spring Xander Quotes & Sayings

When you are in a hole, stop digging! — Bill McKibben

In the middle, the river was a deep green, scattered with rocks poking their noses up for a breath. The water charged around them, creating eddies and whirlpools. Closer to the bank, the current dragged lengths of weed along with it so it seemed that long-haired women swam just under the surface, never coming up for air. — Claire Fuller

You ought to be able to explain why you're taking the job you're taking, why you're making the investment you're making, or whatever it may be. And if it can't stand applying pencil to paper, you'd better think it through some more. And if you can't write an intelligent answer to those questions, don't do it. — Warren Buffett

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again. — Rosie O'Donnell

Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters. — Fran Lebowitz

Justice is like math, anyone can think she knows the answer, but not every answer is right. — Max Gladstone

Acceptance is a small, quiet room. — Cheryl Strayed

I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written. — Terry Teachout

MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it. — David Rockefeller

To succeed today, you have to set priorities, decide what you stand for. — Lee Iacocca