Bulgarini Altadena Quotes

#1. I'm not very popular, because they're bleak and they're mournful and all the rest of it and I get censorious reviews. But I'm only writing fiction. I'm not making munitions, so I think it's acceptable.

Anita Brookner

#2. I consider myself a feminist because I believe women should have equal rights. Of course. It's just that the term 'feminism' conjures up other things for people.

Marina And The Diamonds

#3. But we have learned to mistrust and despise our human aptitude for being entertained, and in that sense we get the entertainment we deserve.

Michael Chabon

#4. One's relationship to time is complicated, and sometimes a day will drag on forever and sometimes it'll be over in a flash. When you look back, "I'm old," after 40 or 60 years, I can't believe I'm as old as I am.

Frederick Wiseman

#5. Entomologists use that word 'foul' often when referring to the flavor of a caterpillar. They are rarely more specific than 'foul' or 'tasty.' I expect that is because they are leaving the assessment up to birds, and birds have a very binary approach.

Amy Leach

#6. Whatever we know as children, this is the world, eaten whole and without question.

Debra Dean

#7. It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country ...

Alan Lightman

#8. What is your quest in life?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I'm a real rebel with a cause.

Nina Simone

#10. A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It can have that element, but it has to be primarily about the male-female relationship.

Kristin Hannah

#11. We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Mignon McLaughlin

#12. He's not one for reading, which to me is like saying you're not one for breathing.

Kirstin Cronn-Mills