"Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop."

-- Linda Howard

#Writing Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Noise Quotes

“the true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.”
“PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently”
“I am grateful for the idea that has used me.”
“Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.”
“Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.”
“If acids win - you lose!”
“My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.”
“Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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