Succintly Quotes & Sayings

Skyler often thought that the Seneca quotation Poe included was a dig at Dupin-or perhaps Poe himself: Nil sapientiae odiosius acumine nimio. "Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than excessive cleverness." "That's for sure," said Skyler aloud. "Or more succintly put, 'No one likes a smart ass'. — Haley Walsh

I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it — Jamie Scallion

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park. — Merlin Olsen

How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day [ ... ] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash. — Joycelyn Elders

I also know that Edison believed the moment between being awake and being asleep was a veil, and it was in that moment that we were most connected to our higher selves. — Jodi Picoult

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one. — Paris Hilton

But hereby resolve to write in this book at least twenty minutes a night. (If discouraged, just think of how much will have been recorded for posterity after one mere year!) (September 5) Oops. Missed a day. — George Saunders

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me. — Ricardo Mayorga

The minds of others are stranger depths to employ our hearts to than our own wonderland of cerebral cortex. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music. — Michael Tippett

Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times."
Skipper giggled. "Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?"
"Simple," said Mump. "One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible time. Two: try not to get your head blown off. — Steve Voake

The best place to look at failure is in the rear-view mirror. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt. In what began almost as a fad and quickly matured into an unshakable habit, companies were 'restructuring,' 'reengineering,' and generally cutting as many jobs as possible, white collar as well as blue ... The New York Times captured the new corporate order succintly in 1987, reporting that it 'eschews loyalty to workers, products, corporate structures, businesses, factories, communities, even the nation. All such allegiances are viewed as expendable under the new rules. With survival at stake, only market leadership, strong profits and a high stock price can be allowed to matter'. — Barbara Ehrenreich

There is a birch-rod kept behind the looking-glass in the schoolroom, and every now and then it is brought out and used, for no reason that really matters. This generally happens when there is a yellow wind ... Most people in North China suffer from nerves during the winter months, when the air is so dry that one gets an electric shock every time that one touches metal, or takes off ones furs. The nervous tension becomes greater before a dust storm, known locally as a 'yellow wind. — Daniele Vare

In going abroad we change the climate not our dispositions. — Horace

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. — Richard M. Nixon