Astringent Crossword Quotes

#1. I became a new person; sucked into the neutrality of the abyss, comforted by social norms, and set free from the burden of individuality.

Joss Sheldon

#2. You go to work, you go home, you've got a family and the sun's still shining ... you're happy. - Sherri L. Smith, (Flygirl, 2008)

Sherri L. Smith

#3. Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what's not supposed to be there.

John Prine

#4. Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

Walt Whitman

#5. As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

Meir Soloveichik

#6. I own your pleasure, sweet Ellie. You come when I say you can, understood?

M.S. Force

#7. I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

Elaine Stritch

#8. I am young. I better show off what I have now.

Michelle Trachtenberg

#9. That's what scares me, Gideon. You don't know what you're worth."
"Actually, I do. Twelve bill - " "Shut up.

Sylvia Day

#10. College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

E.W. Howe

#12. You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

John Piper

#13. How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!

John Armstrong