Lynne Truss Quotes

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Society
  • Comedy

• No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Lucky
  • Really
  • Superhero

• I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Die
  • Beginning
  • Hands

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Child
  • Model
  • Information

• The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.

  

  Eden Robinson
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  • Long
  • Song

• I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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  • Style
  • Reflect

• I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Fact

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Time
  • Technology

• I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

  

  Nancy Wake
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  • Women
  • Why

• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Way
  • Just

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I've always worked very hard.

  

  Andrea Riseborough

• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • People
  • Cat

• Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Different
  • War

• Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Chamber

• To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

  

  Lynne Truss
  • People
  • Children
  • Book