“All active participants in a meeting can instinctively sense progress, and when progress isn’t being made, they get cranky and start looking for the exit. A referee’s job is to shape the meeting to meet the requirements of the agenda and the expectations of the participants. Style and execution vary wildly from referee to referee, but the defining characteristics are the perceptions of the meeting participants. A good referee not only makes sure the majority of the attendees believe progress is being made, but they’re aware of anyone who doesn’t believe that progress is being made at any given moment. And they’re looking for one thing . . . people checked out.”
Source: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
“Time only pushes wounds aside. Regular life becomes insistent and crowds out the loss. Usually, this is a good thing. So much of healing is the recognition that not all your tissue got damaged in the accident.”
Source: Grief Is for People
“Sean dribbled to the basket, leaping into the air and leaning into defenders, grimacing when no foul came. This would inspire Hurley to tell him at halftime, 'Why isn't there a call? Because no referee in the world is going to blow the whistle and bail out a fucking idiot who's up in the air for some unknown reason.”
Source: The Miracle of St. Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball's Most Improbable Dynasty
“No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not the hate, and the violent but not the violence. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and war begets war.”
Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel
“God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig; you disgusting shambles of porcelain-skin, unwholesome-fat and puny-bones. Your blatant disregard for God's word shan't earn you any favours here!”
Source: 'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel
“Cherry stretched her neck side to side and transformed into a big gillybear with fluffy cream-colored fur. "All right, crew. As your captain, I say we charge ahead. Mikko, you take the wheel."
He transformed into an enormous field sloth with long arms that nearly touched the ground when he stood on his back legs. He rolled his eyes at Cherry. "I think that I should be captain since I'm the only one who knows how to steer this thing."
"Well, I know how to stand at the front and look commanding and that's half the job," said Cherry, crunching an-other ship chip. "Onward!"
Hetty and I transformed as well: she into her indigo hare form, and me into my roan form. Mikko directed us to-ward the waterfall. The spray immedi-ately soaked through our fur, down to the skin.”
Source: Temple of Secrets
“This is the dangerous thing about musicals. Most of them assume that as soon as you find your voice, you'll use it to sing to someone else.”
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“I finally decide I'm just going to stab him a thousand times with a ballpoint pen.”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“It's like being best friends with a fairy-tale giant; Tiny Cooper can't help but hurt you.”
“WHAT AM I GOING TO DO? Tiny shouts in my ear, and I want to say, "Hopefully, go find a guy who knows there is no u in awesome”
Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson