Randy Garrity

“Charm has an occasional contrary concomitant, heartlessness. The virtuoso is so pleased by the way he produces his effects that he disregards the audience. Once Dorothy Thompson came in to see FDR after a comparatively long period of having been snubbed by the White House—although she had deserted Wilkie for Roosevelt during the campaign just concluded, and as a result had been fired from The New York Herald Tribune, the best job she ever had. Roosevelt greeted her with the remark, "Dorothy, you lost your job, but I kept mine—ha, ha!”
― John Gunther, Roosevelt In Retrospect: A Profile in History

“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he’s getting it. I”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest