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.

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

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.

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.