Converting Straight Quotes

#1. Nightly awaits that sweet address
Principality of Sleep
Happy Land of Forgetfullness

Ivan Doig

#2. I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

Alex Ebert

#3. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

#4. My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

M.I.A.

#5. I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'

Harmony Korine

#6. Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#7. The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

Pat Barker

#8. When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

Jochen Zeitz

#9. I'm just getting settled as a responsible man - but if you split the elephant into little mouthfuls it will be fine.

Tom Hardy

#10. Last dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
I feel summer creepin' in and I'm
Tired of this town again

Tom Petty

#11. I feel like being nerd is not about the superficial quality; it's about how nerds approach life. It's much more emotional and mental than it is you're some fat guy living in your mom's basement, which I think is just a hacky stereotype.

Chris Hardwick