954 04060c Quotes

#1. Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?

Ellen Kushner

#2. I really believe amendment " to make English our common and unifying language" is racist. I think it's directed basically to people who speak Spanish.

Ruben Aguilar

#3. I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

Eric Clapton

#4. Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

Martial

#5. I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

Jen Lancaster

#6. Politics requires sacrifice. The sacrifice of others, of course.

Michael Dobbs

#7. On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

Ma Jian

#8. In war, the only true victory is peace.

Donald L. Hicks

#9. The one voice I would hear even in death. A rotting corpse in the ground, I would sit up and take notice.

Sophie Jordan

#10. If someone already knows you from being in the trenches with you on this TV schedules, and then you have a little bit more time, it's a treat for them, as well, because they can give you more.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

#11. I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.

Karen Allen

#12. The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.

Donna Tartt

#13. It's a good thing you're an aging orphan," he murmured, gently pushing the hair away from her face. "I don't have to wait around to get anyone's permission."
"Permission for what, you rat bastard?" she said.
"Such language, dragon. I'm afraid you're going to have to marry me.

Anne Stuart

#14. My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.

Mathias Rust

#15. I think about all the money that's gone into my piano lessons, and the days and weeks and hours. I have to get this right, I just have to, or else
I don't want to think about the "or else." Or else is a blank. A big gaping canyon. And on the other side of it is a person I don't know how to be.

Hilary T. Smith