Bret Easton Ellis Podcast Quotes

#1. Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Neil Gaiman

#2. It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.

Robert Musil

#3. Life is finite so celebrate your birthday with infinite joy.

Debasish Mridha

#4. As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.

Charles B. Rangel

#5. All of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?

David Wojnarowicz

#6. They had met at a club fifteen years before, Etta and Magnus. He had convinced her to dance with him, and she said she had been in love by the end of the song. He told her he had been in love before the beginning.

Cassandra Clare

#7. How children love the broken thing! And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done. Adult

Gregory Maguire

#8. I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.

Martin Mull

#9. My oldest son always wants to race. He's kind of like me and it now has carried over to the other two. They're all pretty competitive now. We do stuff in the pool. They're like fish in water. They go all over the place. They're kids. They like to play, have fun and compete with everything they do.

Steve Blake

#10. I am sorry, but it took me months of courting to get him. He is a prize to be won and mine to use as I see fit.

K.A. Merikan

#11. I have a terrible image in my mind of a cow going to slaughter. There's not a lot of fight in them. Pigs, they'd squeal and thrash around. They'd fight. It's almost as if cows don't know they have a choice. Not that they don't panic, but they do so in a quiet way.

Cloris Leachman

#12. You've got to be really dialed into exactly who you are to the one hundredth power or you're just everyone else

Kanye West

#13. By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

Jonathan Edwards

#14. What was the measure of a marriage? These moments of caring and bliss? Or the secrets withheld?

A.J. Banner

#15. It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Phyllis Schlafly

#16. The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

George Bernard Shaw