Suspicionthat Quotes & Sayings

I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry." — Edward Hirsch

The learned are said to have seeing eyes;The unlearned have only two sores on their faces. — Thiruvalluvar

Make the best of an emergency. — John Singer Sargent

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,
the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,
owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language. — Laurence Sterne

People talked more openly to a psychiatrist than they did to a priest because a doctor couldn't threaten them with Hell. — Paulo Coelho

A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it. — Amy Poehler

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies. — Tim Burton

Communication
Is a work of art
Some are normally born with it
Some may need a chart
— A. Saleh