Expert Quotes
493 quotes by 445 authors
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you…
— Diane Setterfield
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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ask me. I'm a cow expert.
— Gordon Korman
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They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good. I see acquaintances and friends Accumulating dividends And making enviable…
— Dorothy Parker
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The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy…
— Tom Robbins
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A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the…
— Jim Goad
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But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman…
— Bruce Lee
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons…
— Sarah Vowell
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Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day…
— Betty MacDonald
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You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the…
— Libba Bray
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Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make…
— Bernard Malamud
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When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there…
— Julia Child
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Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
— Henry David Thoreau
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and…
— Jasper Fforde
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I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers…
— Bill Cosby
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I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her…
— Terry Pratchett
Who Wrote These Expert Quotes
445 authors contributed a total of 493 Expert Quotes, led by these top contributors: