"Style means the right word. The rest matters little."

-- Jules Renard

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Style Quotes

“You come to realize that life is short, and you have to step up. Don't feel sorry for me. Much is expected of those who are strong.”
“Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.”
“Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others.”
“My people, my people, what can I say; say what I can. I saw it but didn't believe it; I didn't believe what I saw. Are we gonna live together? Together are we gonna live?”
“Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.”
“Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel”
“I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a limitless curiosity and interest in your fellow human being, and that the physician-patient relationship is key; all else follows from it.”

Source : Interview with John McMurtrie, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2010.
“You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.”

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