Cratylus Book Quotes

#1. I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

Piper Perabo

#2. You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

Eddie Van Halen

#3. Like the two trees in our garden that had grown side by side, their trunks intertwining over the decades to accommodate and support one another.

John O'Farrell

#4. Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#5. Oh that short hair, a la garcon that evokes unfamiliar, boyish kinds of sex.

Alaa Al Aswany

#6. Clark Terry is an American Master. I love to listen to him, particularly 'Mumbles.' I was so delighted when we received degrees together, along with Edward Kennedy, at the New England Conservatory in 1997.

Aretha Franklin

#7. Don't be surprised if you all see me in different kinds of cinema.

Tena Desae

#8. There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory.

Mark Twain

#9. The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

Timothy Bradley

#10. Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.

Lincoln Kirstein

#11. One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#12. joe hardy to frank hardy: "age before beauty

Franklin W. Dixon

#13. Privacy, self-reliance, choice -- all these can and must remina core American values. Yet so too must we remember that other core American value, the value of community. And we must redefine community more broadly to include not just our street or our tract, but our town, our metropolis, our region.

William Fulton