"A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables."

-- Norton Juster

#Smell Quotes #Gone Quotes #Wasps Quotes

“While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.”
“I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.”
“But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.”
“She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.”
“One day treats us like a hireling nurse, another like a mother.”
“The group Bananarama has such a light, cutesy-pie sound that they make The Go-Go's sound like Led Zeppelin by comparison.”
“Life is better lived than conceptualized. â€” This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and Iâ€™ve come to understand that life is best to be lived â€” not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.”
“But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.”

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