"I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts."

-- Mary Russell Mitford

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Style Quotes

“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?”
“The FBI's director's letter to Congress revealed that there were e-mails on Clinton aide Huma Abedin's computer, but that's just about it, just that there were emails, not much more information.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.”
“There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin
“JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.”
“Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.”
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”

Source : "Self-Culture" (address), Boston, Mass., Sept. 1838
“If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains”

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