The Lottery Setting Quotes & Sayings

Credit is something that should be given to others. If you are in a position to give credit to yourself, then you do not need it. — F Scott Fitzgerald

In my experience there's not a state in the world," Fee said matter-of-factly, "that cannot be greatly improved by close proximity to cheese. Especially — Sarah-Kate Lynch

Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. — Julie Delpy

I dropped my backpack, shrugged off my coat, and hopped on the exercise bike. Charging the batteries was usually the only physical exercise I got each day. — Ernest Cline

Every eye was on her, including her stepmother's and stepsisters', she thought absently. But Gisela only had eyes for Valten. — Melanie Dickerson

In truth, the degree of anyone's succes depends on how often they can say the word 'yes' and hear the word 'no.' Those many times you are thwarted yet persevere. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Soviet Constitution provides a key to the understanding of Soviet psychiatry. In the West, our tradition of human rights pits the citizen against the State. Very occasionally, a politician will, like John Kennedy, ask us to think what we can do for our country. But, in general, we have rights without any major duties other than the duty to obey the law. If I wish to live as a tramp or to devote my life to a study of butterflies, it's my business and my right to do so as long as I hurt no one else. The Soviet constitution proclaims a rather different relationship. The citizen is meant to be a productive member of the socialist community. If I choose to be a tramp or butterfly-maniac, I am hurting others because I am depriving the State of my labour. This is not necessarily bad, just odd given Western traditions. But being a 'parasite' is an actual crime much like being a vagrant was in Tudor England. — David Cohen

Not only are islands impoverished relative to the mainlands, but small islands are more severely impoverished than large ones. That bit of insight became famed as the species-area relationship. — David Quammen

Today, the U.S. has lost one out of every four manufacturing jobs that existed before NAFTA - over 5 million, with 42,000 factories closed. A modest trade surplus with Mexico was replaced with a large, persistent deficit. . . . NAFTA's new investor protections dramatically increased the ability of corporations to outsource entire factories to Mexico" - resulting in the "giant sucking sound" presidential candidate Ross Perot warned us about. — Bill Press

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks. — Samuel Johnson

Making the world safe for hypocrisy. — Thomas Wolfe

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past. — Jill Abramson

Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way. — Catherine Deneuve

I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space. — David Rees

I can't not be who I am. — Randy Owen