"Nobody has time for your priceless prose. Get to the point."

-- Jim Michaels

#Priceless Quotes #Prose Quotes

“Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.”

Source : Felix Adler (1921). “The Standard”
“America is just so weird in what they think is right and wrong. Like, I was watching 'Breaking Bad' the other day, and they were cooking meth. I could literally cook meth because of that show. It's a how-to. And then they bleeped out the word 'f__k'. And I'm like, really? They killed a guy, and disintegrated his body in acid, but you're not allowed to say 'f__k'? It's like when they bleeped 'molly' at the VMAs. Look what I'm doing up here right now, and you're going to bleep out 'molly'?”
“I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie”
“I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.”
“I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.”
“Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.”
“An outsider's point of view is always handy.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.37, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.”

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