Excellent Quotes - Page 9

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities

I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.

Ben Foster dealt with the purchase of my house and service was excellent. Excellent Service all round.

I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

A well arranged scrapbook, filled with choice selections, is a most excellent companion for anyone who has the least literary taste.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Number, the most excellent of all inventions.