Ben Milam Quotes

#1. I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'

James Tate

#2. The Christian calendar is wrong, Jesus was born years earlier.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. You like gator?"
"Never touch the stuff. I don't eat anything that could eat me. It screws with the food chain".

Stephen Randel

#4. When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

Regina Spektor

#5. I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children.

John Spratt

#6. My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

Howie Mandel

#7. One has to know more about a company if one buys earnings.

Walter Schloss

#8. What looks to be a wisp of cloud is actually the moon, narrow and pale like a paring snipped from a snowman's toenail.

Tom Robbins

#9. Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.

Nicci French