"Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning."

-- Joe Queenan

#Book Quotes #People Quotes #Form Quotes

“I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.36, Oxford University Press
“I want to go down in history.”
“About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.”

Source : "Arphid Watch: Ingestable RFID pills" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. October 10, 2012.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.”
“I hate the ballplayer who says, 'I did everything I could have possibly done.' Because if you didn't win it all, you obviously didn't do everything you could have done.”
“I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.”
“You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.”
“I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.”

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