if you don't want to get old, don't mellow. Linda Ellerbee More Quotes by Linda Ellerbee More Quotes From Linda Ellerbee It's not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it's the whole jock enchilada. I'm all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there's tackling and grunting involved-- no thanks. Linda Ellerbee cheerleading basketball games Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being. Linda Ellerbee gossip people thinking Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower. Linda Ellerbee polite revolution movement Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else. Linda Ellerbee polish fancy information How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once. Linda Ellerbee learning knows feelings