Insert Quotes

I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than…

— Will Self

My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a…

— Phil Hartman

Small towns and local publications love to have a hero of some kind. For Portland, it's definitely Ian Karmel and Ron Funches,…

— Amy Miller

I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand.…

— John Irving

I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll…

— Matt Nix

These days in movies you can always come back to a location or do an insert or do something, so that's not…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

The medical operations are so challenging because they're so technical, as well. I assumed before we started that we would do the…

— Clive Owen

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the…

— Kathryn Stockett

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

— Norman Douglas

My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time…

— Mitch Hedberg

As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases…

— John Bates Clark

I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.

— Jim Cornette

I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define…

— Andrew Revkin

There's arrogance for you. I think all artists insert themselves into their subject matter.

— Sophie Blackall

Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.

— Isaac Watts

People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch…

— Davis Schneiderman

Remember, it is the president's constitutional duty to provide a strong national defense. Don't insert politics into national security. Listen to your…

— Ryan Zinke

We're living at a time when attention is the new currency. Those who insert themselves into as many channels as possible look…

— Pete Cashmore

Don’t sign on for more problems than you must. Resist the temptation to involve yourself in other people’s zones of expertise and…

— Twyla Tharp

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that…

— William Jackson

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

— Cory Doctorow

We operate from this position of, "Let's build the skeleton and then insert the filling." We have this ping-pong dynamic with each…

— Sarah Jaffe

I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that…

— Gary Ackerman

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

— Lisa Unger

It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was…

— Charlie Brooker