Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our

Stephen Vizinczey

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Ashley Olsen

When an idea takes hold, nothing can stop it!

Stephen Richards

There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Jos

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other

Charles Dickens

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Tallulah Bankhead

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Shania Twain

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Alanis Morissette

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Og Mandino

Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

Vince Lombardi