"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."

-- Russell Banks

#Clever Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's unfortunate when an athlete's talent comes with so little forethought or leadership [...] The Falcons need to start over. If next year's team ends up being young and hungry but fairly average, the last thing you want as a general manager or coach is to have a blowhard cornerback whining about his contract leading the charge, no matter how good he is.”
“What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.”
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.”
“I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.”
“The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.”
“You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.”
“My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this.”
“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.”

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