"Today the outlandish becomes routine overnight. The humorist is trying to say that it's still outlandish."

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William Zinsser

#Trying Quotes #Today Quotes #Routine Quotes

“In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.”
“You've got to rely on people that you trust and you love.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent inquiry into truth for truth's sake, without any sort of axe to grind, nor for the sake of the delight of contemplating it, but from an impulse to penetrate into the reason of things.”
“Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.”

Source : "New Hampshire Dems Walk Out Of Gingrich Speech To Legislature" by John King, www.cnn.com. May 7, 1998.
“Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.”
“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”
“Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.”
“It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.”

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