"A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit."

-- Renata Adler

#Strategy Quotes #Linear Quotes #Conversation Quotes

“recollect, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.”
“Justice is the truth in action.”
“Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.”
“Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.”
“I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.”
“Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Mar 06, 2011
“I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.”

Source : "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.
“I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work. I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal. This country would not amount to as much as it does if the young men of fifty years ago had been afraid that they might earn more than they were paid for.”

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