Ballyhooed Quotes

#1. But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my delight in his fine and tender play. ( ... ) Proof surprises us with its aliveness and intelligent modesty, and we have not met these characters before.

John Heilpern

#2. It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Mike Farrell

#3. Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

Marilyn Suzanne Miller

#4. Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Winston Churchill

#6. First of all; Frank was the BOSS. We didn't question any of his motives or decisions at the time.

Jimmy Carl Black

#7. So you all remember: just because you're small, doesn't mean you got no power.

Neil Gaiman

#8. To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. They were average specimens of national manhood, slim and gaunt with deeply tanned skin from riding in jeeps and on motorcycles.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#10. Life is frightening," Claudine corrected her. "And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.

Anne Perry

#11. So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want ... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

Chuck Palahniuk