"there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#Art Quotes #Saying Nothing Quotes #Fraud Quotes

“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”

Source : Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.9, Grove Press
“I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.”
“If you use a poor headline, it does not matter how hard you labor over your copy because your copy will not be read.”
“One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives.”
“My overall worldview has never changed: that America has and must maintain the strongest military in the world, that we must lead the international community to confront threats and challenges together, and that we must use all tools of American power to protect our citizens and our interests.”
“I start off with the obvious, that it makes no sense either to believe or to disbelieve in God until a substantial and intelligent definition or concept should be offered. Belief or disbelief is a secondary consideration, contingent on the intelligibility and cogency of the premise; the primal unintelligence or irrationality of moderns is revealed by their eagerness to leap to a conclusion without ever being curious what the hell the original premise was.”
“Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.”
“Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.”

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