Life Quotes

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

John Steinbeck

I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.

Alexandra Potter

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

Nicole Williams

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

John Irving

A rival may raise your game in the short-term. An Ally will raise your game for the long-term.

Morag Barrett

The cost of a range of appropriate courses and training activities is much less than the cost of incompetence.

Robin Hoyle

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts.

Robin Hoyle

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

Robin Hoyle

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.

Niall Ferguson

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Arthur Miller

Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)

Francesca Marciano

There were many ways to lie without saying something that wasn't true. I was learning that the hard way.

H.M. Ward

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,...,and he had very red hair.

J.D. Salinger

Ask a burning question, get a burning answer

Lynda Barry

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.

Robin Wasserman

That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may "think" there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write, "Fuck you" right under your nose.

J.D. Salinger

Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do.

Piers Anthony

Vom Leben muß man saufen.

Eve Langlais

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible.

J.D. Salinger

It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you it? The answer is, you . I I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

J.D. Salinger