Quotes By Marilyn Vos Savant

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition to handling individual tasks.

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues.

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Know how to behave at a buffet. Take a clean plate for a second helping.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.