E. Merrill Root Quotes

Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

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• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Tough
  • Losing

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Would
  • Construction

• If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Look
  • Clean

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Beauty

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Best
  • Self

• My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.

  

  Paige Butcher
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Fashion

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Strong

• America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • America
  • Free

• Every country wants to protect its athletes because it's ultimately Germany vs. Spain, America vs. China; sports are an extension of the government because of national pride.

  

  Bryan Fogel
  • Country
  • America
  • Sports

• Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • People
  • Life
  • Weird

• The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.

  

  Keith Barry
  • People
  • Live

• I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Father
  • Mom
  • Sister

• Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

  

  Alain Rene Le Sage
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt

• I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.

  

  Linda Fiorentino
  • Business
  • Movie

• That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Running

• Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Men
  • Dear
  • Odd

• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Different
  • Action
  • Select

• If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Air
  • Quotations

• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Life
  • House
  • Anger

• Discriminate, discriminate, and again discriminate! Be fastidious. Choose. Select.

  

  E. Merrill Root
  • Select
  • Fastidious