Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

Malcolm Gladwell is both a writer and a journalist. Learn more about him on the wikipedia page here. Here are our favorite quotes by Malcolm Gladwell:

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

Some Alcohol Quotes

Some of my favorite quotes linked with alcohol:

Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little. Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen

A hangover is the wrath of grapes. Unknown

Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! William Shakespeare, Othello

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while. Joseph Schenck

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin


I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. Thomas Jackson

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. Jack Handey

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. W.C. Fields

6 Quotes about 60th Birthday

Quote about 60th Birthday 1: If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived. - Christy Moore

Quote about 60th Birthday 2: A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating. - Arnold Bennett

Quote about 60th Birthday 3: I wanted to show I had balls at age 60. Just because society says I'm old, doesn't mean that I am. I'm pursuing happiness, even if it makes the people around me unhappy. - Sylvester Stallone

Quote about 60th Birthday 4: It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. - Ellen Glasgow

Quote about 60th Birthday 5: A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb

Quote about 60th Birthday 6: There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. - Sofia Loren

10 Funny Quotes on Writing

Here are some of my most favorite funny quotes on writing!

Funny Quote on Writing 1: Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. - Wilson Mizner

Funny Quote on Writing 2: People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Funny Quote on Writing 3: The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. - Mark Twain

Funny Quote on Writing 4: It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson

Funny Quote on Writing 5: A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Funny Quote on Writing 6: If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. - Kingsley Amis

Funny Quote on Writing 7: The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. - Herman Wuoks

Funny Quote on Writing 8: Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Funny Quote on Writing 9: Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach. - Emilio Estevez

Funny Quote on Writing 10: I'm astounded by people who take 18 years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write 'Madame Bovary,' and was that ever on the best-seller list? - Sylvester Stallone

Sad Love Quotes and Sayings

Some of my favorite sad love quotes and sayings:

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. - Lyster

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. - Ann Landers

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach. - French proverb

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. - Henry Louise Menken

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. - B.R. Hayden

Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts the most.

ACOHOL: to make her strong,
Love: to make her weak.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, It might have been.

Shawn Michaels Quotes

What do I look for in a woman? Why the three B's of course- body, brains and bucks. Bucks are optional, however, because the Heartbreak Kid has plenty of his own! What would I consider a romantic date? I would have to say that ANY date with me is going to be romantic

When girls or chicks- whatever you prefer- scope me out, its just like bees on honey! They're all over me! Hugging me and kissing me as if I was God's gift to women. Who can blame them? Just take a look at this package.

All right, honey. The HB Kid gets the message. Bottom line: With or without the gruff, I'm still the sexiest man alive!

What would the guy be doing wearing a white bikini? See ya, wouldn't want to be ya!

What can I say? America Online is hip even for a cat like me. I mean, where else would I get the opportunity to talk to chicks all over the world- at the same time! I mean, I'm breakin' hearts from Seattle to St. Pete- all on the same night!

It was something that I had never really thought about. You break into this business wanting to achieve some goals and as I said before, there are a lot of times I don't realize the responsibility that goes along with that. I was made aware of that a couple of days ago in DC, I found it to be a very heavy responsibility, but a responsibility that I would be more than happy to bear

Paul Simon Quotes

Quotes by Paul Simon:

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent

Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone

I fall to my knees, shake a rattle at the sky, I'm afraid that I'll be taken, abandoned, and forsaken in her cold coffee eyes.

She comes back to tell me she's gone. As if I didn't know that, as if I didn't know my own bed. As if I'd never noticed the way she brushed her hair from her forehead.

Steven Seagal Quotes

Favorite quotes by Steven Seagal:

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

I have traveled the world creating this drink.

Jimi Hendrix Quotes

Jimi Hendrix is one of the best entertainers ever so here are some of my favorite Jimi Hendrix Quotes:

All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

From the series "Writer Quotes", my favorite Oscar Wilde Quotes:

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Only the shallow know themselves.

James Brown Quotes

Some Quotes by James Brown:

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Billy Joel Quotes

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.

I would not leave you in your times of trouble. We never could have come this far. I took the good times, I'll take the bad times, I'll take you just the way you are.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Johnny Cash Quotes

Johnny Cash Quotes, a true personality:

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

Eminem Quotes

I hope you like Eminem, if you don't, just avoid these Eminem Quotes:

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Infinite was me trying to figure out how I wanted my rap style to be, how I wanted to sound on the mic and present myself. It was a growing stage. I felt like Infinite was like a demo that just got pressed up.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

There's a difference between realness and an act, and they're an act, and they know they're an act, and they even say they're an act, they even say they're cornballs, they admit it

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.

A bunch of girls, swinging from a nice chandelier, landing on top of me naked...while I lay in a pool of steaming hot water!

My earliest memory was raping the babysitter when I was 5...she was 15.

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

Golf Quotess

Here are some interesting Golf Quotes you might like:

Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green? - Anon

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron

In general, the short game has been most effective. Besides working hard on it I always used my imagination with a touch of feel in my hands. You should hit the ball according to what your mind dictates but previously you should visualise the shot. This can be achieved with extremely high concentration. All the difficult shots are hit with the hands. I have hit shots simply by visualising the run of the ball. I had no problem in doing this because my mind clearly indicated I could not miss. I do not stand out any particular shot because it is necessary to believe in yourself to overcome any difficulties. - Seve Ballesteros

Every time a fellow golfer gives me a piece of advice I have thought about it. A different thing is that this advice can be introduced into my golfing routine. Jaime, O’Grady and others are good friends who have wished me the best and I am grateful for that. My best game has come from the strength of my mind. When you have a balanced and rhythmical swing you should exercise it with looseness and imagination. Finally I must say as long as I believed in my own movements I had the winning results. Moreover, I still believe my swing was the best. - Seve Ballesteros

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny

Malcolm X Quotes

Curtesy of CelebreQuotes:

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Rita Rudner Quotes

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'

Attitude Quotes

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - Edith Sitwell

Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. - Lynn Johnston

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. - Lisa Alther

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. - William James

Douglas Adams Quotes

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Elvis Presley Quotes

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock'n'Roll:

• “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.”
• “When things go wrong don't go with them”
• “Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.”
• “I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.”
• “Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside”
• “Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one”
• “Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!”
• “Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.”
• “Ah just act the way ah feel.”
• “When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.”
• “Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.”