Famous quotes containing the words outstanding, talk and/or show:
“Our partys most outstanding mediocrity.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“You all talk like somebody else made these laws and Pharaoh dont know nothing about em. He makes em his own self and hes glad when we come tell him they hurt. why, thats a whole lot of pleasure to him, to be making up laws all the time and to have a crowd like us around handy to pass all his mean ones on. Why, thats a whole everything under the sun! Next thing you know hell be saying cats cant have kittens.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (18911960)
“It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)