Characterizes Def Quotes

#1. Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

#2. When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you a volleyball player?' No one ever guesses tae kwon do.

Diana Lopez

#3. The real story of Detroit [ ... ] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

Peter Schiff

#4. A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

E.L. Doctorow

#5. Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

Bill Gates

#6. It's fun making new skills for new characters.

Masahiro Sakurai

#7. I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father

Robert Rankin

#8. Food had power. It could inspire, astonish, shock, excite, delight and impress. It had the power to please me ...

Anthony Bourdain

#9. The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Richard Schickel

#11. Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#12. I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

Jacqueline Bisset

#13. I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

Maurice Sendak