Adjourned Meeting Quotes

#1. People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

Alex Tabarrok

#2. Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Mark Pryor

#3. Roddick can challenge him as well if he serves big consistently for the entire match. If he does that, then he is tough to break even for a guy like Federer.

Richard Krajicek

#4. We've had this conversation before, but humor me. How many people in this room have a soul? A shot at heaven, or whatever there is after this life.

Stephenie Meyer

#5. Why do tyrants understand the dangers of a democratic imagination more than our policy makers appreciate its necessity?

Azar Nafisi

#6. I know I should let you go, should let you walk away from me right now, but I can't do it. I can't. I'm selfish, and I'm in love with you, and I want nothing more than to keep you for myself.

J.M. Darhower

#7. What about Ella's nightmares?"
It's Ella, who has been listening quietly, that responds. "I'll tough them out. The next time that big freak gets into my head, I'm going to punch him in the balls."
"Whoa!"
"All right," I say, grinning. "Meeting adjourned.

Pittacus Lore

#8. With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.

Garth Nix

#9. I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

J. Robert Lennon

#10. What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.

John Fowles

#11. I don't have a computer. I'm going to wait until that whole fad is over. I was suckered in on the Pet Rock. Not twice, people.

Kathleen Madigan

#12. I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

Jim Jarmusch

#13. It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

John C. Maxwell

#14. The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

Eve Ensler