Bastable 2017 Quotes

#1. I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

Ted Cruz

#2. If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

Bruce Sterling

#3. The throat chakra is the center that is aesthetic. It gives an appreciation of beauty.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Like what?" "Like this. I can feel you like beaming anxiety at me.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#5. Don't worry, sweetheart. I've got lots of toys for us to play with. But that doesn't mean the idea of having a policeman helpless in his own cuffs doesn't still amuse me.

Kim Dare

#6. Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H.L. Mencken

#7. An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Maeve Binchy

#8. I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.

Robert Crumb

#9. Daniel Wolf's advice - want what you have.

Diane Keaton

#10. I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.

Patrice O'Neal

#11. A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Patricia McCormick

#12. I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

#13. There's room for role models who make mistakes.

Taylor Swift

#14. Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Socrates