Anthologist Quotes

#1. The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist

Logan Pearsall Smith

#2. I am committed to curbing the influence of money in our political system.

William J. Clinton

#3. Start slowly, then taper off.

Walt Stack

#4. Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

Richard Branson

#5. When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms. This

John Calvin

#6. Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

Dan Jenkins

#7. The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.

Scott Walker

#8. And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end.

Nicholson Baker

#9. It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.

James Bay

#10. Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

John Dryden

#11. I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

Oscar Isaac

#12. Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

Ellen Barkin