Crosswinds Quotes

#1. Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.

John Updike

#2. The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

Stephen Covey

#3. Watch out for negative power places on the earth, if you can "see" they are reddish and they twist your feelings. They don't vibrate at a rate conducive to humanity.

Frederick Lenz

#4. I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

Margot Kidder

#5. I didn't have the time to slice a hundred shallow cuts into his lips and make him suck limes. I was too busy to make him swallow oiled musket balls. I had more important things to think about now and a lot to do. -Saffron in Dust of 100 Dogs

A.S. King

#6. On Fridays there were fish fries or boils at which they served "lawyers" (burbot or eelpout), so-called because their hearts were in their butts.

Lorrie Moore

#7. This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing ... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

Anne Lamott

#8. The United States investigates everything - usually after it's dead.

Will Rogers

#9. There will be a debate on Firing Line between Buckley and Gore Vidal on the proposition: "This nation cannot survive as long as the income of 50 percent of the population is below the median." Mr. Vidal will take the affirmative.

M. Stanton Evans

#10. Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

Robert C. Solomon

#11. I couldn't believe it. I had broken the law simply by not wearing clothes.

Matt Haig

#12. They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'

Eddie Izzard

#13. He wasn't a man, but a tape recorder, repeating catch phrases and old slogans without any thought to the concepts behind them, a dog stuck in the training of his youth and faithfully executing his tasks long after his master had moved on.

Harvey Pekar