"Styles in wit change so."

-- Lillian Hellman

#Style Quotes #Wit Quotes

“Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, donâ€™t do it. â€¦ Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. â€¦ Donâ€™t take any guff off anybody.”
“Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.”

Source : Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.440, Vintage
“Fage does not make great yogurt.”
“I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.”
“I make it a policy never to appear surprised" - Dr Barlow”
“Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,”

Source : "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.
“A government is not an old pair of socks that you throw away.”

Source : "The wit and wisdom of Boris", www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.
“The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.”

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