A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread being the bored and slightly effete way he normally acts with customers, the middle being the crazed and abnormal way he feels around this famous nineteen-year-old girl, and the top bread being his attempt to contain and conceal this alien middle layer with some mode of behavior that at least approximates the bottom layer of boredom and effeteness that is his norm.

— Jennifer Egan

A career is just a longer trip with a lot more baggage.

— Jay Samit

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

— Jay Samit

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

— Vladimir Nabokov

A diamond is just a rock. A really expensive rock.

— C.V. Hunt

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

— Jay Samit

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

— Jay Samit

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awesome We All Are'!

— W.O. Wainwright

A final dirty joke. Another human punch line

— Markus Zusak