"To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head."

-- Joanna Lumley

#Book Quotes #Skills Quotes #Judging Quotes

“If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.”
“Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base.”
“Every source of blessing is a point of attack.”
“All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.”
“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.”
“The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village.”
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.”

Source : Anne Roiphe (2009). “Epilogue: A Memoir”, p.4, Harper Collins

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