"I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?"

-- Paul Newman

#Home Quotes #Hamburgers Quotes #May Quotes

“In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.”

Source : James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media
“The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset.”
“Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, youâ€™ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, youâ€™ll be tempted to say to the people around you, â€œhow can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam
“I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.”
“There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.”
“We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.”
“Don't you wanna grow up to be just like me, I slap women and eat mushrooms then OD.”
“The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.”

Source : Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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