Alexander Wendt Quotes

#1. I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

Henry Miller

#2. A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. Science is but a perversion of itself
unless it has as its ultimate goal
the betterment of humanity.

Nikola Tesla

#4. We ask the education system to expiate the sins of the rest of the society and then condemn it as hopelessly broken when it doesn't prove up to the task.

Christopher L. Hayes

#5. Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Christine Pelosi

#6. I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.

Mickey Rooney

#7. Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.

Andy Summers

#8. People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

Leonard Baskin

#9. When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

T.F. Hodge