Carlton Lassiter I Would Rather Quotes

#1. Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

Susan Barker

#2. Astrobiologists now believe that the existence of life throughout the universe requires: 1. a source of energy; 2. a type of atom that allows complex structures to exist; 3. a liquid solvent in which molecules can float and interact; and 4. sufficient time for life to arise and to evolve.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. That's a very good thing.

Tijan

#4. Didn't I tell you I love you?"
"Yes."
"I meant all of you. Even the weird bits.

Josephine Angelini

#5. Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

John Updike

#6. All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Czeslaw Milosz

#7. I had to be the only person on the planet capable of pissing off every guy in my life on the same day while managing to get them to all lie to each other - while lying to them my self.

Stormy Smith

#8. Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [ ... ]

Zadie Smith

#9. For the first three months I knew him, I thought Lassie was Rowan Atkinson.

Shawn Spencer