Betimes Asphalt Quotes

#1. If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex, and subsist on a diet of raw vegetables, you would find a new golf instructor. However, when gurus make demands of this kind, many of their students simply do as directed.

Sam Harris

#2. She and I would trade books, talk endlessly, drink cheap whiskey, engage in unremarkable sex. You know, the stuff of everyday.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Broadcast radio was entering its own golden age during the Depression, with live programming on stations all through the day. Local stations needed singers, musicians, announcers, and whipcord personalities, along with Christian clergy to give prayers and pundits to speak on world affairs.

Douglas Brinkley

#5. I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Mary Ann Mobley

#6. I play the radio and moon about ... and dream of Utopias where its always July the 24th 1935, in the middle of summer forever.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#7. I know not with what weapons World War Three will be fought. But I know that World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.

Dianne Duvall

#8. Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

George W. Romney

#9. I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

Tom Leveen

#10. I couldn't keep my head on straight and every time I tried to pick a new strategy to get through this, such a "from now on,I will not be attracted to him" or "from now on, I will not speak to him", someting came along and shook things loose

Karina Halle

#11. Most faiths, he thought, could stand to learn the virtue of keeping their devotion to themselves.

Edward W. Robertson

#12. You fall for who the chemistry is with.

Vanessa Paradis

#13. Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

Susan Neiman