Publisher Quotes

A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

James R. A. Bailey

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

Ford Madox Ford

Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge to the ordinary visitor; and the traveller is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first, or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.

Feeding the media is like training a dog. You can't throw an entire steak at a dog to train it to sit. You have to give it little bits of steak over and over again until it learns.

Andrew Breitbart

The Americans who came across the plains in covered wagons and those who followed the trail later in trains drawn by the iron horse were interested in home ownership and a new life. Especially was this true of the Negro pioneers. They knew it was not a case of starting again. For them it was the dawn of a new life in an atmosphere of freedom.

There is no study which requires more continuous and undisturbed attention than the study of complicated statistical problems.

Georg Joachim Göschen

Because I really care about homosexuals…and I want them to know that they will face a horrible judgment.

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Francis Pharcellus Church

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

William Feather

Self-expression is not enough; experiment is not enough; the recording of special moments or cases is not enough. All of the artshave broken faith or lost connection with their origin and function. They have ceased to be concerned with the legitimate and permanent material of art.

Success is not to be gained by a blind and slavish following of anyone's rules or advice, our own any more than any other person's. There is no royal road to success- no patent process by which the unsuccessful are to be magically transformed.... Rules and advice may greatly assist-and they undoubtedly do this-but the real work must be accomplished by the individual. He or she must carve out his or her own destiny.

William Walker Atkinson

They (fans) respond mostly to what WWE trains them to respond to. An ankle lock gets over because Kurt Angle does the ankle lock and everyone submits to it. A triangle by Undertaker doesn't get over because WWE has never trained the fans to accept that as a finish because no one ever taps to it. And it was the same thing when Shamrock was in WWE.

I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

John Joseph Griffin

Meek and lowly, pure and holy,
Chief among the "blessed three."

Charles Jefferys

Even the most careful and expensive marketing plans cannot sell people a book they don't want to read.

MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA, A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE, AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S A SERENDIPITOUS FEAST FOR THE MIND, THE EYE, AND THE IMAGINATION, A LITERATE CELEBRATION OF UNBRIDLED CREATIVITY, COUPLED WITH A TOUCH OF REBELLION AND AN INSOLENT DESIRE TO SPIT IN THE EYE OF THE DRAGON.

Only when you're willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy you'll have. I certainly believed that. Conventional sports nutrition books had me convinced of it. Yet, in practice, we see that clearly isn't the case.

Brendan Brazier

Hatespeak is usually more honest than lovespeak, and it's always better than doublespeak.

There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice, that does not live by secrecy.

Joseph Pulitzer

How free from every thing like art were the reasonings and language of Christ.

And less is often more, as Lessing's Prince teaches us.

Christoph Martin Wieland