"A speaker who does not strike oil in……" — Louis Nizer

"A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring."

— Louis Nizer

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21 Quotes by Louis Nizer

Louis Nizer has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than…
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning.…
Where there is no difference, there is only indifference.
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they…
The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there…
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

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More Boring Quotes

This quote is filed under Boring Quotes, one of 1,489 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive. — Paul Auster
There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy… — Sebastian Bach
I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but… — Tom Baker
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it's true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you… — Christian Bale
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on… — Alan Ball
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything… — J. G. Ballard
I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring. — Javier Bardem
Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. — Dave Barry
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. — Dave Barry

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