1. "I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? answered, Delivery: What is the second? Delivery: What is the third? Delivery: so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, I will answer, first, second, and third, Humility."
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John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion
2. "He looked like the victim of a forceps delivery."
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Quote by Auberon Waugh
3. "An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: The biggest problem in my life, he said, is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine."
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Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
4. "Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace."
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Michael J. Gelb, Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America's Greatest Inventor
5. "Bible, and so the delivery of one of these prizes was a rare and noteworthy circumstance;"
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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
6. "Since you refused the good grace to die on delivery, Rathain has got a living prince."
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Janny Wurts, Fugitive Prince
7. "Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE"
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Samuel Shem, The House of God
8. "God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope."
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Quote by Ed Stetzer
9. "A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices."
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Travis McDade, Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
10. "the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company."
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Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby