Calvin Trillin

STATUS QUOtes — 20230413

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.” — Felix Cohen

“We consider speech to be the result of thought (we have a thought, then select a sentence with which to express it), but thought also results from speech (as we grope, in words, toward meaning, we discover what we think).” — George Saunders

“Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.” — Logan Pearsall Smith

“I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still.” — Calvin Trillin

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20190513

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny’d.” — Robert Herrick

“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” — A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Best Friends Library

“The creative process is much more about failure than success. Go be creative, even if you think you aren’t ready. None of us is ready.” — Scott Bourne

“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better.” — Calvin Trillin

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20171201

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.” — Calvin Trillin

“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.” — Orison Swett Marden

“Justice will not condemn even the Devil himself wrongfully.” — Thomas Fuller

“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.” — Nancy Banks-Smith

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20151114

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“Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.” — John Shirley

“When you feel irresistible, you’re hard to resist.” — John Updike

“There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston

“As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” — Calvin Trillin

 

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